• Hyper Food Robotics, an Israeli developer of automated robotic restaurants, has deployed its first robot at a Pizza Hut in Bnei Dror, Israel.

• The customers can place the order via the attached touchscreen or through the Pizza Hut app, upon which the pizza will be prepared, boxed, and dispensed into a tray. Currently, it requires employees to hand it over to customers, but the company is looking to improve the robot to dispense pizza directly to the customer in the future.

<ul><li> Analyst Quicktake: The news comes just two months after Hyper Food Robotics first introduced its robotic pizza restaurant concept to the market. Launching its robot at a Pizza Hut restaurant first is no surprise as the startup was co-founded by Pizza Hut Israel CEO Udi Shamai, who oversees 90 Pizza Huts across the country. Hyper Food Robotics now joins a handful of pizza-making robot developers in the industry, including Picnic, Pazzi, xRobotics, and Piestro. </ul>