Xrobotics It thinks that it has cracked the code on receiving the pizza restaurant to adopt robotics.
The San Francisco -based robotics company created a countertop robot called XPIZZA CUBE, almost a stacked washing machine size and uses machine learning to apply sauce, cheese and paperoni for pizza flour. Machines, which are leased for $ 1,300 per month for three years, can make 100 pizza in an hour and retrofit to work with various sizes and styles such as Detroit and Chicago Deep Dish.
“It saves about 70, sometimes 80% of the time for employees,” said Xrobotics co-founder and CEO Dennis Rodionov. “This is just a repeatable work. If you have a paperoni pizza, you need to keep 50 slices of paperoni one by one.”
Xrobotics is not the only company that has tried to introduce robotics into the restaurant industry – nor is it focused on only one pizza.
Zume is the most notable pizza robotics company – if it can be considered its category. The company raised over $ 420 million at the venture capital for its robotic pizza trucks, focusing on permanent packaging in 2020 and pivying before pivying to fully shuttering in 2023.
Rhodionov argues that they have been successful, where other companies are not trying to change the pizza making process completely, as it was zum, but produces technology to help the existing pizza manufacturers save time and labor.
Because they are producing supportive techniques, as opposed to replacement technology, Rodionov said they are capable of keeping their device sufficient to fit into the existing kitchen and a level of price that pizzerius-mother-and-pap shops to large chains, both, can count as customers.
The company found it hard. Xrobotics launched and introduced in 2019 First version of technology in 2021Its first robot was quite large and could work with over 20 topping, and ran into problems similar to their rivals.
“We did a real pilot in the restaurant with our huge machine,” Rodionov said. “We learned a lot from him, and we came to know itAnd we just followed the intestine and said, ‘Yes, we will go and make a small version,’ and it was a tremendous success. ,
Xrobotics launched its current model in 2023. The company refused to share how many customers it had. It said that its robots are producing 25,000 pizza per month, but it is difficult to calculate how many customers who translate.
The startup also recently raised a $ 2.5 million seed round led by SOSV, Mana Ventures and Republic Capital participation. Rodionov said that the company would use capital to produce more units and to install more robots for customers.
Xrobotics is committed to the pizza industry, at least for now, Rodionov said, looking at the boundary size of the market – there are more than there 73,000 pizza chain in America aloneThe company plans to expand the next Mexico and Canada.
“I like pizza very much, my co-founder too,” Rodionov said. “We have probably tested any pizza in San Francisco. In addition, we test pizza in New York and Chicago.” Rodionov stated that the Detroit-style pizza, known for its square shape and crispy cheese crust, is their favorite.
