Miso Robotics

Miso Robotics offers a range of kitchen automation solutions and a software platform that powers its robots (the latter as a standalone service). The company’s latest product line includes 

1. Flippy 2,  a burger flipping robot that can load, fry, and place the items in a hot holding area without assistance and can handle up to 60 baskets per hour. This is the latest version of the original Flippy introduced in 2018.
2. Flippy Wings, a robotic chicken wing frying solution that can identify the food using AI vision technology, to pick up the food, cook, and drop into a hot holding area. Both the models are equipped with its “AutoBin” system—an array of customizable food-safe bins into which the food is dropped to be cooked. 
3. Flippy Lite which focuses on a single product that needs seasoning and finishing.
4. Sippy, a beverage dispensing robot developed in partnership with beverage dispensers manufacturer Lancer Worldwide. Sippy is equipped with a fully-automated conveyor system to dispense drinks. Sippy directly integrates with a point-of-sale system, which triggers the beverage-making process including selecting the appropriate sized cup and pouring and sealing the drink while ensuring appropriate delivery of orders. 
5. CookRight, an AI and machine learning-driven cooking platform that includes a user interface tablet, two cameras, and a small computer. CookRight focuses on grill-based cooking and is capable of tracking food items on a grill for precision-level cooking and sends alerts to kitchen staff when an action is needed. The platform is also capable of managing the food serving workflow to ensure freshness and correct assembly of orders. Miso Robotics also launched “CookRight Coffee,” a coffee monitoring system powered by the platform in April 2022.

As of April 2022, the company had commercialized its Flippy 2 robots, while Flippy Wings, Flippy Lite, and Sippy were available for reservation. Its products are available on a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) basis—Flippy and Flippy 2 Wings are offered to customers starting at USD 3,000 per month (fees related to other products were not made available as of April 2022). The CookRight platform is offered as a standalone software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering for restaurants at a monthly subscription of USD 100.

Key customers and partnerships

Miso Robotics’ customer partnerships include White Castle, Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants, Inspire Brands, Panera Bread, Jack in the Box, Wing Zone,  Americana Restaurants, and Wings and Rings. In December 2023, Miso Robotics partnered with restaurant technology company Cali Group and PopID, a developer of identity verification solutions, to launch an automated restaurant named CaliExpress in Pasadena, California. 

The company also has a June 202 partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to test its software powering Flippy 2 and Flippy Lite at scale, using AWS RoboMaker, a cloud-based simulation service and an October 2024 partnership with NVIDIA to integrate accelerated computing and robotics technologies into its next-generation Flippy Fry Stations.