Waste Reduction

Kitchen Robotics Hits the Proof-of-Concept Stage: From Bowl Builders to Robot Woks, What's Actually Working

Travis Kalanick's Atoms platform just brought its Lab37 Bowl Builder out of stealth, promising 300 bowls per hour and 30-50% labor cost reductions. Meanwhile, a robot wok in Philadelphia's Chinatown is cooking 5,000-plus dishes without a human chef. A clear-eyed look at which kitchen automation technologies have crossed into commercial viability and which are still proving themselves.