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warehouse are n’t the only places grappling with a labour crunch . Since the scratch line of the pandemic , restaurants around the world have been grappling with staffing shortages . A number of startups have enter the characterisation with mechanization solutions , aimed at melt off the turn of hands want to keep the twinkle on and the solid food warm .
There are a number of different robotic solutions for the commercial-grade kitchen . Something like Miso is probably the most striking due , in part , to the gaud of having a robot sleeve flipping burgers .
Botinkit ’s — scant for “ ( ro)Bot in Kit(chen ) ” — Omni miss that level of physical flashing , instead relying on a more standard kitchen widget figure factor . That is to say , it ’s a robot that does n’t expressly count like a automaton . Its looks more like a ego - service kiosk , down to the inclusion of a touchscreen . The system is kitchen secure , of course , and designed to be operate by a small staff of man .
The Omni organisation can cook , stir - fry , and stew — essentially anything you could fix in a wok , the robot should be able to do by with minimum human intervention . The Shenzhen - ground startup says use of an Omni organisation can in effect halve the human labour requirements in the kitchen .
“ When I ’m thinking about what the kitchen will look like in 10 years , I ’m thinking it should not be the traditional way we see today , ” CEO Shirley Chen told TechCrunch . “ So we decided to start from the hardest parts , the chef ’s parts . When you use chefs , it ’s very unmanageable to control the consistency , because everything is base on human feeling . ”
When Chen co - founded Botinkit in 2021 , she was both a strategist at British accounting colossus KPMG and a restaurant owner . She say the strange compounding of roles put her in a good position to spot the challenge confront restaurant .
investor are listen . The party announced a $ 13 millionSeries Ain July 2023 . Through a Series A file name extension , that number is now $ 21 million .
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Asia stay on to be Botinkit ’s prominent market , but the startup has since expand into Europe and the U.S. This new financing will go toward expanding the company ’s international reach .
