Xreotics He believes he has broken the code to get pizza restaurants to adopt robotics.
The San Francisco -based robotics company created a CounterTop robot called Xpizza Cube, which is about the size of a stacking washing machine and uses mechanical learning to apply sauce, cheese and pepperoni to pizza dough. Machinery, which has been hired for $ 1,300 a month for three years, can make up to 100 pizzas per hour and abandoned to work with pies of different sizes and styles, such as Detroit and Chicago Deep Dish.
“This saves almost 70, sometimes 80% of the time for staff,” said Denis Rodionov, co -founder and chief executive of Xrobotics, at TechCrunch. “It’s just repeated job. If you have a pepperoni pizza, you have to place 50 slices of pepperoni one by one.”
Xreotics is not the only company to try to introduce robotics into the restaurant industry – nor the only one focused on pizza.
Zume is the most remarkable robotic pizza company – if this can be considered its own category. The company increased over $ 420 million in business capital capital for robotic pizza trucks, before rotating to focus on sustainable packaging in 2020 and shrink entirely in 2023.
Rodionov argues that they have succeeded when other companies do not have because they do not try to completely convert the pizza manufacturing process, such as Zume, but rather build technology to help existing pizza manufacturers save time and work.
Because they create auxiliary technology, as opposed to replacement technology, Rodionov said he was able to keep their device small enough to fit existing kitchens and to be invoiced at a level where the pizzeria-from mom and pop stores in large chains, both of which the company could afford.
The company found it in the harsh way. Xreotics started in 2019 and introduced the first edition of technology in 2021. Its first robot was significantly larger and could operate with more than 20 coating and ran to the same problems as their competitors.
“We made a real pilot in the restaurant with our huge machine,” Rodionov said. “We learned a lot of it, and we understood that we needed a very small, compact solution. It was a little scary. All the numbers, all the feelings, all the gut that said you need to do that, no this. And we followed the gut and said, “Yes, I would go and make a smaller version”, and it was a huge success. ”
Xreotics started their current model in 2023. The company refused to share how many customers it has. She said her robots produce 25,000 pizzas per month, but how many translated clients are difficult to calculate.
The start has also recently increased a $ 2.5 million seed round, led by Finsight Ventures with SOSV, Mana Ventures and Republic Capital. Rodionov said the company would use capital to produce more units and install more robots for customers.
Xreotics is committed to the pizza industry, at least for the time being, Rodionov said, taking into account the huge size of the market – there are more than 73,000 pizza chains in the US. The company plans to expand to Mexico and Canada then.
“I love Pizza, my co -founder,” Rodionov said. “We’ve probably tried any pizza in San Francisco. We also try pizza in New York and Chicago.” Rodionov added that Detroit’s pizza, known for its square shape and crisp cheese crust, is his favorite.
