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Chef Robotics Physical AI Models Can Now Help Automate Meatpacking

Chef’s AI-enabled robots can now automate meatpacking tasks, assembling a variety of raw, frozen, and precooked proteins such as pork loin filets, chicken breasts, lamb chops, steaks, sausage links, and bratwursts onto trays before packaging. These meatpacking tasks use Chef’s existing piece-picking capability, offering food manufacturers higher throughput, lower labor dependency, and consistent portion presentation across meatpacking and tray assembly lines. Read More

How Chef Robots Can Assemble Burritos, Wraps, Burgers, and Sandwiches

Chef robots use AI-powered vision to detect and place ingredients on flatbreads such as tortillas, wraps, lavash, burger buns, and pizza bases. By combining large-scale trained models with adaptive placement strategies, they maintain precision and high throughput across production lines without requiring changes to existing infrastructure. Read More

What Is Robotics as a Service (RaaS)?

This blog explores what RaaS is, why it can be a beneficial business model for physical AI companies and their customers, and how RaaS has been reshaping automation in the food industry. Read More

Introducing R2R Communication: How Chef Robots Coordinate to Maximize Throughput

Robot-to-robot (R2R) communication allows multiple Chef robots to coordinate ingredient deposits on a shared conveyor belt, achieving higher throughput without sacrificing precision. It operates wirelessly, is easy to deploy, ensures faster reactions on moving conveyors, and reduces spillage and missed trays on high-speed production lines. Read More

Introducing Conveyor Connect: How Chef Robots Communicate With Food Conveyors

Chef robots can communicate with all types of food manufacturing conveyors. Using the conveyor companion box, the robots can read and dynamically adjust conveyor speed to maximize throughput and minimize missed trays, deposit ingredients even more precisely onto conveyors while minimizing spillage, and react to sudden conveyor starts or stops without requiring any changes to existing line infrastructure. Read More

Small Compartments and Inserts: How Chef Robots Make Precise Deposits in Every Tray

Chef's AI-enabled robots use shielded utensils and deep learning vision models to precisely place ingredients into small compartments and inserts within a meal tray. Read More

Food Production Equipment: A Complete Guide for Supporting Manufacturing Operations

Food manufacturers need specialized food processing equipment to prevent contamination, ensure batch consistency, maintain product quality, and comply with regulatory requirements. This guide covers essential food manufacturing equipment, including metal detectors, checkweighers, weighing scales, industrial mixers, homogenizers, blast chillers, and labeling systems from leading manufacturers. Read More

Chef Robotics and Packline Partner on End-to-End Meal Production Automation

AI-powered robotic assembly teams up with advanced packaging systems to transform fresh and frozen meal manufacturing. Read More

Introducing Piece Picking: Automating Individual Food Items from Unstructured Totes

Piece picking enables Chef robots to segment, lift, and place individual food items such as chicken breasts, burger patties, and sauce cups rather than portioning by weight or volume. This expands what food manufacturers can automate on their production lines. Read More

Automating Food Production: Leading Companies for Every Manufacturing Operation

A guide to leading food automation companies in the US and Canada. Compare equipment across denesting, conveying, meal assembly, tray sealing, and case packing. Learn which problems each type of equipment solves and how to choose the right automation partner for your production constraints. Read More

Introducing Chef+: Our Most Advanced Meal Assembly Robot Yet

Discover the Chef+ robot with doubled ingredient capacity, enhanced food safety design, three-camera vision, and self-leveling feet for automated meal assembly in food manufacturing facilities. Read More

Introducing Chef’s Pat-Down Capability for Enhanced Meal Presentation and Sealing

Chef’s pat-down capability helps food manufacturers automate the manual task of spreading and flattening ingredients inside prepared meal trays before sealing. Read More

Chef Robotics and ILPRA Partner to Deliver Flexible Automation for Meal Assembly and Packaging

Chef Robotics and ILPRA are partnering to provide food manufacturers with a flexible, end-to-end automation solution for meal assembly and packaging. Read More

Chef Robotics and JBT Marel’s Proseal Partner on Joint Solution for Meal Assembly

The joint solution combines Chef’s AI focus and flexibility with Proseal’s robust, high-quality tray sealing machines and packaging solutions to provide food manufacturers with a flexible end-to-end solution for their meal assembly and packaging needs. Read More

How Our New Multi-Deposit Feature Doubles Throughput

Multi-deposit gives a single Chef robot the ability to utilize two or three utensils at a time, providing an industry-first 1:1 worker equivalent. Read More

New Ingredient: Chef Robots Can Now Serve Super Sticky Foods

We’re excited to announce that Chef robots can now serve very sticky ingredients like mac and cheese, peanut butter, cream cheese, beef birria, and chipotle chicken. Read More

Chef’s Meal Assembly Robots Now Feature Automatically-Leveling Feet

Chef’s latest modules feature feet that are adjustable with the touch of a button. Read More

New Ingredient: Leafy Greens Are Chef’s Latest Capability

Marking the most recent addition to our ingredient lineup, Chef robots can now serve leafy greens such as romaine and iceberg lettuce, slaw, spinach, spring mix, and kale for fresh food manufacturers across the US and Canada. Read More

Chef Robots Are Now NSF-Certified For Food Safety

This certification means that our robots are sanitary, easy to clean, and made of food-safe materials. Read More

New Ingredient: Chef Robots Can Now Serve Curries

Food manufacturers can now use our robots to pick and place curries with saucy bases and chunks of protein during meal assembly. Read More

We’ve Raised a $43.1M Series A to Accelerate Our AI-Enabled Robot Deployments

The infusion of funds will enable Chef to further scale customer deployments and build out go-to-market functions. Read More

When Does It Make Sense to Use Depositors vs Humans vs AI-Enabled Robotics?

AI-enabled robotics represent an emerging solution that bridges the gap between traditional automation and human labor. Read More

How Will AI Affect the Food Manufacturing Sector?

For food manufacturers, advances in AI are creating both new ways to understand the production line, and new ways of meal assembly and fulfillment. Read More

The Robotic Future for Food Manufacturing

The future of food manufacturing is transforming with advancements in AI and robotics, as companies like Chef reshape how production lines operate. Read More

An Inside Look at Chef’s Latest Feature Release: Placement QA

The feature gives customers unprecedented visibility into imagery of every meal assembled by Chef robots in their facilities. Read More

Lifting the Veil on Chef and The Future of Embodied AI in the Food Industry

Where we are now, where we’re going, and exactly how we’re going to get there. Read More

Where Are All the Robots?

We were promised robots that do all our daily tasks. Where are they and what's preventing them from coming into our day to day world? Read More