{"id":96898,"date":"2019-10-01T22:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T05:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/secretive-seattle-startup-picnic-unveils-pizza-making-robot-heres-how-it-delivers-300-pies-hour"},"modified":"2019-10-01T22:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T05:02:24","slug":"secretive-seattle-startup-picnic-unveils-pizza-making-robot-heres-how-it-delivers-300-pies-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/secretive-seattle-startup-picnic-unveils-pizza-making-robot-heres-how-it-delivers-300-pies-hour","title":{"rendered":"Secretive Seattle startup Picnic unveils pizza-making robot \u2014 here\u2019s how it delivers 300 pies\/hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/secretive-seattle-startup-picnic-unveils-pizza-making-robot-heres-how-it-delivers-300-pies-hour2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After three years of quietly toiling away on a robotic food system, Seattle startup <a href=\"http:\/\/hellopicnic.com\">Picnic<\/a> has emerged from stealth mode with a system that assembles custom pizzas with little human intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Picnic \u2014 previously known as Otto Robotics and Vivid Robotics \u2014 is the latest entrant in a cohort of startups and industry giants trying to find ways to automate restaurant kitchens in the face of slim margins and labor shortages. And its journey here wasn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood is hard. It\u2019s highly variable,\u201d said Picnic CEO<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/claytonwood\/\"> Clayton Wood<\/a>. \u201cWe learned a lot about food science in the process of developing the system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three years of quietly toiling away on a robotic food system, Seattle startup Picnic has emerged from stealth mode with a system that assembles custom pizzas with little human intervention. Picnic \u2014 previously known as Otto Robotics and Vivid Robotics \u2014 is the latest entrant in a cohort of startups and industry giants trying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96898","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}