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Quick Service Restaurants are facing labor shortages and are resorting to excessively raising wages and compensations to keep their stores afloat. The average wage of production and nonsupervisory employees has risen sharply, reaching an average of $19, far exceeding the minimum wage. As a result, the profit margin of QSRs, which had already been low, is dropping steeply.

Our intelligent robotic kitchen is fundamentally and cost-effectively solving this problem by supplying restaurants faced with a shortage of manpower with the required labor. Additionally, with the robotic kitchen doing the demanding and dangerous work in the kitchen, even elderly workers can be actively hired for the remaining tasks like refilling ingredients.
(FACTS) – Quick Service Restaurants (QSR), which account for more than a third of restaurants in the US, have increased by 40% over the past 20 years. However, the fast food industry, which has considerably relied on teenagers for its entry-level jobs with minimum hourly wages, is now finding a shortage of labor. The supply of young workers is decreasing, and the reasons are as follows: lower fertility rates and the pursuit of high-salary jobs due to increased emphasis on education. This eventually cascaded to 1.5 million unfilled job openings at restaurants and hotels, double the number a year earlier.

Andromeda

Andromeda is a robotics startup seeking to develop a fleet of universal humanoid robots. Andromeda Robotics’ first prototype, Abi, is a companion robot who aims to alleviate
feelings of loneliness from elderly residents in aged-care facilities through social interactions and hugs! Andromeda predicts humanoid robotics have the potential to improve quality of
life for vast numbers of people.

Airbotics

Airbotics is an open-source software deployment platform for robotics. It is a self-hosted, secure, software deployment platform built on Uptane and OSTree designed to work for any fleet size and integrate with the hardware and software used in robotics.

Acumino

Acumino means ‘to build skills or acumen’, and that perfectly captures what we do. Our focus has been to make the AI training of robots to perform tasks in very diverse environments (homes, warehouses, hospitals, businesses, etc.) faster, safer, more accurate, more scalable, and more cost effective than any method currently used. Our solution meets each and every one of those goals.

Our new approach to robotic training come from our taking a different approach. Our two founders have decades of experience in training data for complex AI systems for large tech companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Google and others – and recognized early on that robotic training at scale was largely an unsolved problem. Three years ago, they joined forces with one of the top researchers in robotic grasping and manipulation and developed a hybrid solution that uses robotic technology and human-in-the-loop strategies to develop a solution that is orders of magnitude faster and cost efficient than training methods currently used.

Tertill

Tertill, our solar-powered garden weeding robot. 

Star Robotics

We design, manufacture, and sell autonomous mobile robots for security, inspection, assistance, and defense markets. We have developed our own mechanics, electronics, autonomous navigation, cloud, and artificial intelligence technologies which allow us to configure custom-made solutions for each market. Our vision is based on offering products and services that operate in human real environments while focusing on robustness and reasonable costs to achieve competitiveness from the beginning.

SquareRobots

Square Robot was established in 2016 when three veterans of the robotics industry identified a critical need to improve aboveground storage tank inspections. The autonomous robotic solution developed is a huge step forward for the industry. In-Service inspection of aboveground storage tanks removes people from the dangerous environments and minimizes hazardous vapor and chemical releases to the environment while keeping the tank operational. The Square Robot solution dramatically reduces the cost of tank inspection and intervention with no compromise on data or information quality

Robotai

RobotAI develops hand-eye coordination software for robots that allows them to perform tasks like humans. RobotAI software uses a single RGB camera to teach, detect and estimate the 3D position of any known object.

Northstar Robotics

Northstar’s technology is proven in the field and is available to industrial equipment manufacturers to accelerate autonomous systems development in a wide range of industrial applications.
We offer the following strategic development services; Autonomous Safety Engineering, Mission Critical, Robotic Systems, AI Perception Systems Engineering, Autonomous Systems Integration.

MotivEdge

MotivEdge provides an automatic instant mapping service for indoor venues. Our solution uses mobile robots to quickly and accurately map an indoor environment instantly. The indoor maps can be shared, edited, and accessed by smart city developers, 3D virtual reality apps, or robots that navigate complex indoor environments

KiwiBot

We offer the largest robot delivery infrastructure in the world by connecting businesses that want to utilize our robots for last-mile delivery. We’ve designed our robot to serve as the bridge between humans and technology, designed with compassion to serve you in your community for generations. 

Inovo Robotics

We created Inovo Robotics to make capable, versatile, robotics accessible to all. We address the problems growing businesses have in automating repetitive, hazardous, or precise tasks. We believe there is a better way and want to free your staff from the monotony of repetitive tasks so you can focus them on more valuable and rewarding work. We also believe in putting you in control by providing intuitive, easy-to-use interfaces, so that configuring our robots for your specific task, is as easy as possible.

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