{"id":181256,"date":"2024-01-24T02:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T08:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/aniai-is-bringing-a-burger-cooking-robot-to-restaurants-with-12m"},"modified":"2024-01-24T02:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T08:38:08","slug":"aniai-is-bringing-a-burger-cooking-robot-to-restaurants-with-12m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/aniai-is-bringing-a-burger-cooking-robot-to-restaurants-with-12m","title":{"rendered":"Aniai is bringing a burger-cooking robot to restaurants with $12M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aniai-is-bringing-a-burger-cooking-robot-to-restaurants-with-12m2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aniai.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Aniai<\/a>, a startup that has built a burger-grilling robot, Alpha Grill, said today it has raised $12 million, bringing its total raise to $15 million. The money will go toward launching its first manufacturing facility, Factory One, in South Korea. The firm will also be deploying a cloud-based AI software platform for the robot called Alpha Cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Robot adoption in the restaurant business is becoming popular as it <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/articles\/how-technology-is-helping-restaurants-overcome-labor-shortage-challenges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> can help restaurants address their high pain points like labor shortages, and rising wage issues<\/a>. Robotics enables restaurants to save 30% to 70% of labor costs, and restaurants could replace more than 80% of restaurant positions with robots, according to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/aaronallen.com\/blog\/restaurant-robotics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a research report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurger chains hire six to eight kitchen staff per shift to grill burgers,\u201d Aniai CEO Gunpil Hwang said. \u201cAlpha Grill enables restaurants to engage only one staff member to grill burgers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aniai, a startup that has built a burger-grilling robot, Alpha Grill, said today it has raised $12 million, bringing its total raise to $15 million. The money will go toward launching its first manufacturing facility, Factory One, in South Korea. The firm will also be deploying a cloud-based AI software platform for the robot called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}