As Chef’s robots found the successful success of its original customers

Some years ago, CEF Robota was in front of potential death.

“There have been a few dark periods where I thought you’d gave up:” FOUNDER RAJAT BHAGAT BHAGRONCHACH TANKS AGSCRARRRUCH YOUR SOY SOCIX-SOCIX. But friends and investors encouraged so persistent.

Today, Robotic Chef did not survive not only, it’s one of the few robotic machines that proses. The beginning, that raised little of $ 23 million series a has 40 employees and the cooking bite and the bomb of loved. Decine robot installed through the United States has made 45 million dates to date, BHageery says.

This compared to a failed failed failed companies including Chowbotics with their ward room robot; Pizza shipping robot zume; kiosk robot food Karakuriand, most recent, Agech Robot company. I am

Bhagery says that saved his company doing something that funders of the first stage to do: wear signed customers and millions in entrants.

The problem of understanding

It all started when bhagery made his or her robotic teacher to The tab of the hunger of the upn. I am He has been dreaming of the whole world

Such a world does not exist, because engineers also fix the robotic Grascping project. I am Training the same robot to wash a glass of wine without tapping it and a crowd of iron without abandoning is a difficult task.

When it comes to robotic spoons, “no one built a set of data and don’t pick up, or, how do you pick the cheese and you don’t clump?” he describes it.

His original idea with CHEF robotics was similar to the list of robbed tombs that died: a robotic line for robbery restaurants. That is a huge enormous with a lack of chronic employee.

“We’ve actually had the signed contracts. As we had multi-million dollar contracts. Obviously, we do not do it again. So what happened?” said. “We are essentially could not solve the technical problem.”

In those types of businesses, an employee will complete an order to assemble all the variaced ingredients for each meal. These restaurants want to roboti to requestion to revolt that the process because alternative is that the alternative to the branch are dedicated to, and jumping, something as possible. (We look at you, anchovies).

But bherzeria and the team could not build a successful picking robot because the training data does not exist. He asked their customer potentials to leave the install the ragging for one or two ingredients, meeting data and training buildings. They didn’t say no.

Then bhagery had a epiphany.

Instead of going to bust try existing suits what they wanted, maybe need different clients. “Well tired, because I spent the past year and AA half of my life looking for persuades for these people, that companies of the fast, to work.

Saying that it does not carry

It doesn’t help financing after 2021 was brutal. VCS were also looking at the cemetery. “We’ve talked to the decreases of different funds,” Bhagry said. “We have just refused and more.”

Bhagery was thinking about giving up. “Come home and are like, what do I do in my life? I do the wrong thing? I have to stop?” you remembered.

But they ran out and In March 2023, raised a $ 11.2 million seed carried rile constructed, while landing checks by promus Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Gaenels.

Bhagery and team found their perfect market, a part of the food industry known “High Mix Mix.”

Are the manufacturers, have many recipes, and make millasies of portions, but typically as food or pate. For example; salad and major panines or side courses and sidewalks. These are the pastes used by the hospital and hospital, etc, or are frozen food lunches for consumers.

Rather than an employee takes all ingredients for each lunch, “High mix” employees form a assembly line. Each person adds his individual ingredient to the table repeatedly until the order is complete. Then they assemble the next recipe.

“It is really hundredth of the man who are in a 34 Fahrenheit room, and are essentially scooping food for eight hours a day”, describe. “Then it’s just a terrible work.”

Consequently, this industry also has the lack of chronic work.

Robotics was not economically feasible for them in the past because of the variety of involved ingredients. But a departure shot a flexible-ingredient bot, where the robots are built in partnership with food, works.

Better, as we learn to do this chorizo, or this sauce, or the bots “you get the training data they need to eventually say that this is always in their way.

The best of all, thanks to the interior’s internal interest in the inside of life, fundraising this time was “easy, bherzery” season ”

Avataar Mireererters, Co-founded vc Mohan Kumar, it was specific with the fresh-sorting of a month of a month of a month of existing capitality, block, Promal Pilingual in, between others.

The new funding brings the chef total rises at $ 38.8 million. He also signed a $ 26.75 million Silicon Valley bank for equipment finance.

And the process this time has been “Exhilarating,” he said.