[AIEWF Preview] CloudChef: Your Robot Chef - Michellin-Star food at $12/hr (w/ Kitchen tour!)

One of the new tracks at next week’s AI Engineer conference in SF is a new focus on LLMs + Robotics, ft. household names like Waymo and Physical Intelligence. However there are many other companies applying LLMs and VLMs in the real world!

CloudChef, the first industrial-scale kitchen robotics company with one-shot demonstration learning and an incredibly simple business model, will be serving tasty treats all day with Zippy (https://www.cloudchef.co/zippy ) their AI Chef platform.

This is a lightning pod with CEO Nikhil Abraham to preview what Zippy is capable of!

https://www.cloudchef.co/platform

See a real chef comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INDhZ7LwSeo&t=64s

See it in the AI Engineer Expo at SF next week: https://ai.engineer

Chapters

• 00:00 Welcome and Introductions
• 00:58 What is Cloud Chef?
• 01:36 How the Robots Work: Culinary Intelligence
• 05:57 Commercial Applications and Early Success
• 07:02 The Software-First Approach
• 10:09 Business Model and Pricing
• 13:10 Demonstration Learning: Training the Robots
• 16:03 Call to Action and Engineering Opportunities
• 18:45 Final Thoughts and Technical Details