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Nala Robotics and the problem of the last dirty plate
A robot can fry a wing. Nala Robotics wants it to sauce the wing, box the pizza and put away the dishes, too. The interesting part is what happens between those tasks.
The Restaurant That Refused to Wait for You
Shin Starr spent years putting a kitchen inside a truck. The clever part was not removing the driver. It was teaching dinner to arrive at the same moment as the customer.
Yo-Kai Express
Yo-Kai Express is a California-based food-tech company that builds autonomous restaurant kiosks - vending-machine-sized robot kitchens that cook fresh, chef-quality ramen and other hot meals in about 60-90 seconds, 24 hours a day. Founded in 2016 by former semiconductor engineer Andy Lin, the company applies chip-manufacturing precision to food, flash-freezing partially cooked ingredients and rapid-heating them on demand. Its machines operate in airports, hospitals, universities, offices, and transit hubs across North America, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.