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Will physical AI be general-purpose or specialized? We think it's both. There's a major debate in robotics right now about whether generalist models and humanoids will outperform verticalized solutions. Our view is that the industry is converging toward a different outcome: 🧠 Intelligence will become increasingly shared 🤖 Embodiments will remain highly specialized Why? Because industrial customers don't buy versatility. They buy ROI. A food manufacturer doesn't need a robot that can fold laundry. They need a robot that can portion food accurately, operate in 32°F cold rooms, survive daily washdowns with caustic chemicals, and run reliably at production scale. The same logic applies across construction, logistics, agriculture, manufacturing, and healthcare. Different industries have different environments, economics, and performance requirements. One embodiment won't fit them all. In our latest blog, we make the case that the future of physical AI will consist of shared intelligence layers combined with verticalized embodiments, proprietary data, and domain expertise. Or put differently: the future may look a lot more like 𝘞𝘈𝘓𝘓-𝘌 than 𝘐, 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵. Read the full post: chefrobotics.ai/post/the-cas… #PhysicalAI #Robotics #AI

We’re excited to welcome Steve Van Der Hoeven to Chef as a Senior Staff Software Engineer! Steve brings over two decades of software engineering experience from companies like Google and Optimizely. He most recently worked at Zeromatter, where he built a CI/CD and validation platform for robotics stacks. At Chef, Steve will help our growing team of robotics and software engineers bring robots into real production environments across over a dozen customer sites. If this sounds interesting to you, see our open roles at chefrobotics.ai/careers! #robotics #ai #hiring

Chef robots can now deposit scoopable ingredients into small compartments and inserts with higher accuracy. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 For depositing finer, stickier ingredients like shredded cheese, small compartments leave little margin for deposit error. After picking, cheese tends to cling to the outer portion of the utensil and get stuck between utensils, and when the robot moves to the next deposit, the leftover ingredient falls into the wrong compartment. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 deposit assist 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 Deposit assist is a hardware attachment that our customers can add directly to Chef's utensils. It introduces two mechanisms: → As the deposit assist is a physical funnel, it guides the deposit toward the center of the target compartment as the utensil opens, even when the compartment is small or irregularly shaped. The funnel can be customized to match the compartment size, utensil size, and number of utensils used across different tray formats and SKUs. → Before each deposit, the robot shakes the utensil multiple times over the pan, driven by a food-safe, NSF-certified air cylinder actuator, dislodging any leftover ingredient stuck between the utensils before moving to the deposit location. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁 Food manufacturers reduce spillage into adjacent compartments and achieve consistent deposits across a production run without changes to existing production line infrastructure. Read more on our blog: chefrobotics.ai/post/chef-in… #foodmanufacturing #foodautomation #mealassembly #foodrobotics