Miso Robot on Rail (ROAR)

2020: Announcement

At the beginning of April, 2020 the Miso Robotics company provided kitchen robots for fast food restaurants which should automate industrial kitchens. Decrease in business activity as a result of COVID-19 pandemic negatively affects a segment of services, but the company is sure that robots will help to cut down expenses and at the same time will increase efficiency of restaurants.

The Flippy robot and his successor, Miso Robot on Rail (ROAR), can increase performance, working with people, but not replacing them. The robot can be installed on a floor or under a standard kitchen extract that will allow it to work at two stations. The software allows the robot to prepare more than ten dishes, including chicken wings, meat snack, French fries, cheese sticks, popcorn with shrimps and chicken and also onions rings.

Miso Robotics provided kitchen robots for fast food restaurants which should automate industrial kitchens

ROAR can prepare without the aid of the person hundreds of orders per hour. He warns employees when orders are ready to giving, and performs such tasks as cleaning of a grill and plums of excess oil for frying as he can interact with different objects. Besides, the robot is integrated with the systems of outlets (via the cloud Miso AI system) for automatic routing of orders and optimization of tasks.

The company is going to install robots in more than 50 fast food restaurants worldwide. Miso also stated that it will deploy at restaurants new tools for the platform within a pilot project of CaliGroup directed to increase in standards of security and occupational health. In partnership with payment provider PopID, the company will install devices for temperature measurement of a body of visitors and also also PopID terminals which will allow guests to make transactions, without concerning a panel. Commercial deliveries of the ROAR robot will begin at the end of 2020, and its cost will be about $30,000.^[1]

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