AI Enters the Kitchen

There are factories I visited that I barely remember. Just hallways, machines, and bad coffee. But food factories? Those stay with you like pierogi stuck to a nonstick pan.

Maybe it’s my love for cooking. Maybe it’s the fact that food production has a certain rhythm, a smell, a vibe. I remember it all. The cold, the slippery floors, the endless procedures. Meat plants where everything felt like working inside a fridge full of regrets. Then there were chocolate factories, where the air made you feel like you gained five kilos just by breathing.

And the automation. My personal cinema. Watching a line of products rush by at ridiculous speed, almost invisible to the human eye. Absolute perfection. Like ballet, but instead of dancers, you have cookies and conveyor belts.

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But Chef Robotics is on another level. They're not automating one boring task thousands of times. They’re automating thousands of unpredictable tasks, each one a little different. And they do it in the one place where robots used to fail — food assembly.

They use AI-powered robots with vision systems that can actually adapt. These machines work like humans, only without asking for vacation days. Over 44 million meals already prepared. They just raised 43 million dollars to scale this thing up. That’s not a pitch deck dream. That’s real food, hitting real plates.

In a world where the US alone is short more than a million food prep workers, this is not a luxury. It’s survival.

Chef Robotics is not building another fast robot. They’re building flexible ones. And finally, someone’s cooking with intelligence.

Let’s just hope the robots never learn to judge our cooking — or my grandma’s schabowy might end up with a performance review.