At CES 2022 this week, there will be a bunch of automated food-making machines on display. So with the big tech show starting in just two days, I thought I’d make a quick walk-around guide for those looking to do the food robots tour at CES 2022.
Beyond Honeycomb
While we don’t know a lot about this Korean-based company and their restaurant robot, we are intrigued by the company’s description: AI-driven kitchen robot that learns to reproduce world-class chef dishes. With its food sensors, the robot digitizes the texture and taste of the original dish and replicates at the molecular level. The company aims to innovate commercial kitchens to create a digital platform.
Beyond Honeycomb will be exhibiting at booth CP-29 at CES 2022, and it’s one we have on our list to check out while in Vegas.
Cecilia
Suppose you can imagine Siri fused with a weird Polar Express-like animated character. Then imagine this character served you drinks. In that case, you might have some idea of what the Celicia.ai bartender experience is like. If you want to check out this voice-assistant powered animated robot bartender for yourself, you can do so at booth 61708.
Yo-Kai
Readers of The Spoon may remember that Yo-Kai gave a sneak peak at the Takumi home ramen machine at last year’s Food Tech Live. At this year’s CES, the company will be primarily focusing on its fast-growing autonomous ramen robot for public and retail spaces, the Octo-chef. You can visit Yo-Kai in the food tech exhibition space at booth 53578.
Carbon Origins
As I wrote late last week, not only is Carbon Origins building a refrigerated sidewalk delivery robot by the name of Skippy, the company is also assembling a roster of remote robot pilots who will utilize virtual reality technology to pilot Skippy around to businesses and consumer homes. If you’re at CES, you can visit Carbon Origins and even possibly get adorned in VR gear and drive a Skippy at booth 15883.
Picnic
Picnic made its CES debut in 2020 when it teamed up with convention center catering company Centerplate and made thousands of pizzas to feed hungry trade show attendees. The Seattle-based pizza robot startup returns this year and will be making pies once again at LVCC West Hall #5043. If you want to hear what Picnic CEO Clayton Wood has to say about their robot and the food robotics landscape, you can see him speak at the Food Tech Conference at CES on a panel entitled Welcome to our Food Robotics Future led by yours truly on Thursday, January 6th.
Bear Robotics
After a big 2021 which saw the maker of front-of-house food robots showing up at Chili’s, Denny’s and lots of other places, Bear Robotics is kicking off 2022 by showcasing its Servi robot at CES. You can find Bear at booth 53755 and also hear the company COO, Juan Higueros, on the panel Welcome to Our Food Robot Future on Thursday.
Yummy Future
Yummy Future, which was co-founded by a group of students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, makes a robotic coffee kiosk that serves up both hot and cold coffee beverages and can make a cup of joe in about 30 seconds. If you want to check out Yummy Future, they will be at booth 63149 in Eureka Park in the Venetian Expo Center.
Ottonomy
Readers of The Spoon are familiar with Ottonomy, maker of autonomous delivery robots that can navigate through both outdoors and indoor environments. You can check out Ottonomy’s robot at booth 9648.
If we’ve missed any food robots, drop us a line and we’ll put them on the list.
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