There’s an art to making a good pizza, and apparently it’s something you can teach to robots. A restaurant in New Jersey is proof.
PizzaHQ in Woodland Park employs the Picnic automated pizza-making robots as its main chefs. First, a separate robot presses the dough. Then, the Picnic machines cover it with the appropriate sauce, cheese and toppings. Then it’s into the oven, which can cook multiple pies at once, before another robot slices them and they go into boxes.
When running at full capacity, this robo-kitchen can put out 300 pizzas an hour, making PizzaHQ an ideal location for large events. Humans are only required to move the pizzas from one machine to the next, meaning the restaurant requires fewer kitchen staff. This has allowed the restaurant to hire more delivery drivers. And the pizza is reportedly just as tasty as if it had been made by hand.
