Xrobotics He believes that he broke the code, that restaurants in pizza to just accept robotics.
Robotics based in San Francisco has built a robot with a top called Xpizza Cube, which is more or less the size of the washer with the lips and uses machine learning to use sauce, cheese and pepperoni for pizza dough. Machines that rent USD 1,300 per month for three years can constitute as much as 100 pizzas an hour and are modernized to work with cakes of varied sizes and styles, akin to Detroit and Chicago Deep Dish.
“This saves almost 70, sometimes 80% of the time for staff,” said TechCrunch Denis Rodionov, co-founder and general director of Xrobotics. “It’s just a repetitive work. If you have a pepperoni pizza, you need to put 50 pepperoni slices one by one.”
Xrobotics is not the only company that attempted to introduce robotics into the restaurant industry – or the only one that focuses on pizza.
Zume is the most important company of Pizza Robotics – if this may be considered its own category. The company collected over $ 420 million in increased risk capital for a robotic pizza, after which it focused on a sustainable packaging in 2020 and completely snapshots in 2023.
Rodionov claims that they have succeeded where other corporations do not do it, because they do not try to completely transform the pizza process, as Zume was, but reasonably to build technology to assist existing pizza producers for saving time and work.
Because they are building supporting technology, unlike substitute technology, Rodionov said that they managed to maintain their device sufficiently small to suit in existing kitchens and valued at the pizzeria level-from shops with mother and pops for large chains, each the company as customers matters as clients-they can afford.
The company found it on its own skin. Xrobotics introduced to the market in 2019 and introduced the first version of technology in 2021. His first robot was much larger and could work with over 20 additions and encountered the same problems as their competitors.
“We made a real pilot in a restaurant with our huge machine,” said Rodionov. “We learned a lot from it and we thought that we’d like a very small, compact solution. It was a bit scary. All numbers, all feelings, all the intestines that you simply don’t have to do.
Xrobotics launched its current model in 2023. The company refused to share the number of shoppers. He said that his robots produce 25,000 pizzas a month, but the number of shoppers that translates is difficult to calculate.
The startup has recently raised a $ 2.5 million round of flooding led by Finsight Ventures with the participation of SOSV, Mana Ventures and Republic Capital. Rodionov said that the company would use capital to supply more units and install more robots for customers.
Xrobotics is involved in the pizza industry, at least for now, said Rodionov, taking into account the size of the market – there are greater than greater than greater than 73,000 pizza chains in the United States. Then the company plans to develop to Mexico and Canada.
“I love pizza, also my co-founder,” said Rodionov. “We probably tested any pizza in San Francisco. In addition, we test the pizza in New York and Chicago.” Rodionov added that his favorite is a Detroit style pizza, known for its square shape and crunchy cheese peel.