In September 2020, White Castle welcomed a new member to its back of house staff: Flippy, the fry-cooking robot. The company later upgraded Flippy to a newer model — Flippy 2 — and it has since been ...

This will strike some as excessively contrarian but this is in fact true. A company called Miso Robotics (an offshoot of the CaliBurger chain apparently) has developed a robotic burger flipper. And ...

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Miso Robotics' kitchen robot, Flippy, just became available to purchase for $30,000. Flippy can cook 19 items, including burgers and hash browns. Flippy works as a kitchen assistant, moving along a ...

Flippy the burger-flipping robot is already on break just one day after it started working at CaliBurger. When news got out that a CaliBurger location in Pasadena, California was utilizing Flippy for ...

The concern that robots will take jobs is thrust back into the spotlight after a California-based burger chain has "hired" Flippy to be its latest grill cook. According to KTLA-5, which was there for ...

Flippy the burger-flipping robot has received an upgrade as Miso Robotics rolls out its Flippy 2 model. Taking on board feedback from a pilot program with the White Castle hamburger chain that started ...

Following its recent pilot in select White Castles, Miso Robotics today announced a new version of its hamburger-cooking robotic arm, Flippy. The new version of the robot, simply named Flippy 2, is ...

From the company that gave you Flippy, the hamburger-cooking robot arm, comes Chippy, which does the same for tortilla chips. Miso Robotics today announced that it has teamed with fast casual Mexican ...

The restaurant industry has never been for the faint of heart, what with the razor-thin profit margins and continuous churn of employees. Combine that with the economic devastation wrought by the ...

He was supposed to revolutionize a California fast-food kitchen, churning out 150 burgers an hour without requiring a paycheck or benefits. But after a single day of working as a cook at a CaliBurger ...