{"id":35277,"date":"2017-08-08T11:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T09:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=35277"},"modified":"2017-08-08T11:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T09:42:33","slug":"silicon-valley-robotic-pizzeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2017\/08\/silicon-valley-robotic-pizzeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic Pizzeria takes Silicon Valley by Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Though robotics and artificial intelligence have <\/span><\/span>been used<\/span><\/span> extensively<\/span><\/span> in the military, research and finance sectors, it seems that they have finally found exactly where they need to be<\/span><\/span>. In the most important sector of all to humanity as a whole.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The sector of delicious pizza.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Silicon Valley start-up Zume, founded in 2015, is using robots and A.I to make pizza faster and more <\/span><\/span>efficiently<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>It has been so successful that it is already expanding its delivery radius and taking on more staff such as a robot that can shape dough into a pizza base five times faster than a human can<\/span><\/span>. Not only that, but it can do it <\/span>perfectly<\/span><\/span> every time!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The key to their success is that the robots and A.I are not <\/span>just<\/span><\/span> a gimmick but an <\/span>incredibly<\/span><\/span> useful tool. <\/span>Delivery times are very short due to the pizza <\/span><\/span>being prepared<\/span><\/span> efficiently<\/span><\/span> and there are few complaints from customers due to the perfection of the pizza each time<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>No low-morale employee <\/span><\/span>just<\/span><\/span> trying to get the shift finished with, no hairs in the food, no sparse application of ingredients<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>Just<\/span><\/span> fast, easy, high-quality pizza which is of no extra cost to the end-user.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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High-speed pizza making<\/h3>\n
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The kitchen can put out 372 pizzas per hour (or pp\/hr, which is a measurement I have <\/span><\/span>literally<\/span><\/span> just<\/span><\/span> invented) and at 372 pp\/hr, its kitchens resemble something out of a computer chip manufacture plant<\/span><\/span>. High-tech machinery is everywhere and there is not a traditional oven in sight.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The main pizza-making machine was a coming together or minds from all areas of tech. <\/span>Ex-Zynga execs teamed up with ABB Robotics to invent, produce and use a pizza-making machine that looks like it builds nuclear warheads or tiny nano-robots<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Robots all the way<\/h3>\n
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Online orders via the Zume Pizza app <\/span><\/span>are sent<\/span><\/span> to the robotic conveyor belt which then begins the procedure<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>Dough <\/span><\/span>is pressed<\/span><\/span> into a perfect circle in seconds, with sauce being <\/span><\/span>evenly<\/span><\/span> distributed in amounts which match the customer\u2019s exact specification<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>At the end of the conveyor belt a human could pick it up and place it in the oven, but this is Silicon Valley and for that reason alone the robotic arm named Vincenzo places each pizza into the oven for the precise amount of time necessary for the perfect product<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>Even the slicing <\/span><\/span>is done<\/span><\/span> robotically<\/span><\/span> so that every slice is <\/span><\/span>perfectly<\/span><\/span> proportioned according to mathematical standards<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Almost as if they are <\/span><\/span>just<\/span><\/span> being sarcastic at this point, the pizza <\/span><\/span>is shipped<\/span><\/span> in an <\/span><\/span>environmentally<\/span><\/span> friendly box with a <\/span><\/span>specifically<\/span><\/span> engineered base plate which drains grease away and lets it pool into little depressions in the box so that it doesn\u2019t make the pizza soggy on its way to the customer<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Because of this automated process, Zume can afford to <\/span><\/span>drastically<\/span><\/span> undercut more traditional competition<\/span><\/span>. Their prices come out at almost half of that which Dominos and Pizza Hut charge, with no tips to take care of either. Zume is a no-tipping business, as this is already included in the price as well.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The data generated by orders is not wasted either. <\/span>The A.I learns what people usually order and when, and makes sure that those pizzas are available on that day of the week<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>For example if there is usually a spike in orders on the night when Game of Thrones is on, it will know to <\/span><\/span>anticipate<\/span><\/span> more orders and so will partly-bake some ready to go at a moment\u2019s notice<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>Once the families in the area start getting together and making their orders before the show starts, the pizzas are already <\/span><\/span>nearly<\/span><\/span> done<\/span><\/span>. This results in super-fast delivery which is second-to-none.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This is notable because for the first time, robotics is making a major impact in front-end businesses<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>Where they had <\/span><\/span>previously<\/span><\/span> been used<\/span><\/span> in factories owned by major corporations and used to take part in the corporate robotics \u2018arms race\u2019, they are now <\/span><\/span>being used by<\/span><\/span> smaller start-ups <\/span><\/span>in an effort to<\/span><\/span> take on the traditional food delivery giants<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This is the start of a revolution in food delivery and there is only one guarantee \u2013 Dominos, Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, and more will not be very far behind<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>They will have taken notice, and similar ideas to Zume will already be floating around executive offices the world over<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At least when the robot revolution comes, it will come bearing gifts of pizza.<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though robotics and artificial intelligence have been used extensively in the military, research and finance sectors, it seems that they have finally found exactly where they need to be. In the most important sector of all to humanity as a whole. \u00a0 The sector of delicious pizza. \u00a0 Silicon Valley start-up Zume, founded in 2015,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":35280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[1078,1522,4637],"class_list":["post-35277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-robotics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}