Chipotle’s testing an avocado-peeling robot and an automated bowl assembly line

Chipotle has a caller robot called the Autocado with a cardinal assignment: peeling avocados. The prototype instrumentality “cuts, cores, and peels avocados” by the lawsuit earlier workers mash them up for guacamole successful a process Chipotle is describing arsenic utilizing cobots (collaborative robots).

The institution says the robot being tested successful a store astatine 20972 Magnolia St. successful Huntington Beach, California, volition assistance escaped employees up for different tasks. The “size agnostic” Autocado instrumentality tin get an avocado peeled and seeded wrong 26 seconds, according to Chipotle.

Chipotle says it has invested wealth from a $100 cardinal task money into some of the companies it partnered with for the 2 caller systems — Vebu for the Autocado and Hyphen helped make its caller Augmented Makeline.

This Makeline it’s investigating successful a Corona del Mar, California store (3050 East Coast Hwy), “uses automated exertion to physique bowls and salads” for customers connected a enactment beneath the accustomed prep area. The institution says that “approximately 65 percent of each Chipotle integer orders are bowls oregon salads.” (Sincerest condolences to customers whose favourite burrito bowl-making worker has a dense guacamole manus — it volition inactive beryllium extra.)