Miso Robotics (misorobotics.com) is revolutionizing the restaurant and prepared food industries with innovative robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Leveraging recent advances in AI and declining prices for industrial robotic arms, Miso’s robotic kitchen assistants enable restaurants to cost-effectively automate a wide range of tasks — from prep work to cooking to final assembly. F
ounded with a mission “to use technology to empower chefs to make food perfectly and consistently, at prices anyone can afford" Miso enables restaurants to increase labor productivity, reduce costs and drive profitability, while mproving food quality, consistency and safety. Miso's products are rigorously engineered to operate in commercial kitchens — they use customers’ existing equipment, are readily integrated and can work side-by- side with kitchen staff. The company has launched with two initial customers, CaliBurger and Culinary On-Demand, and employs a respected team of roboticists, engineers and industrial designers from Caltech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Art Center and UNC Chapel Hill.
