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by alaskamiller 1115 days ago
The pizzas are pre-assembled by a 6dof arm at a production facility, this is their value add as being equivalent of replacing the manual labor to finish a pizza similar to what Costco food court's been doing.

The pizzas are then par-baked in a van with built in ovens, then when given the order ticket the ovens then switch to baking mode after determining routing information.

The vision is that all these work smoothly and in tangent to give you the best tasting, cleanest, hottest pizza upon arrival.

The robot stuff is to hype them up to be futuristic and worthy of half a billion dollars instead of bunch of biz, tech, and ops folks hanging around a big empty warehouse in Sunnyvale configuring and reconfiguring lines, with a motor pool full of food trucks installed with heavy ass ovens with no where to go and a iPhone app using Onfleet API.