Xrobotics believes that it has cracked the code that pizza restaurants take over robotics.
The Robotics Company based in San Francisco built a worktop robot called Xpizza Cube, which is about as large as a stackable washing machine and uses machine learning to apply sauce, cheese and pepperoni on pizza dough. The machines, which rent 1,300 US dollars a month for three years, can make up to 100 pizzas per hour and retrofit with cakes from different sizes and styles such as Detroit and Chicago Deep DISH.
“This saves like almost 70, sometimes 80% of the time for the staff,” Denis Rodionov, co -founder and CEO of Xrobotics, told Techcrunch. “It is only repeatable work. If you have a Pepperoni pizza, you have to place 50 slices of pepperoni one after the other.”
Xrobotics is not the only company that has tried to introduce robotics to the restaurant industry, the only thing that focuses on pizza.
Zure is the most remarkable pizza robotic company – if this can be seen as a separate category. The company collected venture capital more than 420 million US dollars for its robot pizza capital before concentrating sustainable packaging in 2020 and was completely closed in 2023.
Rodionov argues that they were successful where other companies do not try to completely change the pizza manufacturing process, such as building, but technology to save existing pizza manufacturers time and work.
Since they build assistive technology in contrast to replacement technologies, they could keep their device small enough to fit in existing kitchens, and at a level, the pizzeria-from mom and pop shops to large chains that the company count as customers can afford.
The company found out on the hard tour. Xrobotics started in 2019 and introduced the first version of the technology in 2021. The first robot was significantly larger and was able to work with more than 20 tops and came across the same problems as their competitors.
“We made a real pilot in the restaurant with our huge machine,” said Rodionov. “We learned a lot from it and found out that we needed a very small, compact solution. It was a bit scary. All numbers, all feelings, all belly The. And we were following our stomach and said: “Yes, we would make a smaller version”, and it was enormous success. “
Xrobotics started their current model 2023. The company refused to tell how many customers it has. It said that its robots produce 25,000 pizzas per month, but like many customers who are translated, it is difficult to calculate.
The startup recently introduced a seed round of 2.5 million US dollars under the direction of Finsight Ventures with the participation of SOSV, Mana Ventures and Republic Capital. According to Rodionov, the company will use the capital to produce more units and install more robots for customers.
Xrobotics is at least initially involved in the pizza industry, said Rodionov, considering that it is the sheer size of the market -there are more than 73,000 pizza chains in the United States alone. The company plans to expand to Mexico and Canada next.
“I love Pizza, my co -founder,” said Rodionov. “We probably tested every pizza in San Francisco. We also test pizza in New York and Chicago.” Rodionov added that the Detroit style pizza, which is known for its square shape and crispy cheese crust, is his favorite.