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

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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:

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

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Timestamps

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

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