Hosted 50 Dyson School of Design Engineering students in our 3 in 1 restaurant + lab + mini-factory location last week

Showing the next gen of 🇬🇧 engineers how to e/acc

Conveyor prices are ridiculous, we’re thinking of open sourcing ours: fully modular and customisable, mostly 3D printed, TOF or IR sensors, load cells, ESP32…

BOM excl belt around $50

Hardware fundraising cheat code: get investors to touch what you’ve built - haptic memory works wonders

There are no shortcuts in hardware but 3d printing is the closest thing

Working on an AI that can track in-store waiting times and conversion rates

Dreamt of having a kiosk in my parents’ restaurant while working there as a waiter 10 years ago.

That never happened… but now KAIKAKU built our own from scratch that connects to a plethora of custom hardware

Just used a self-service key cutting machine that 3D scans your key and cuts a new one within 3 mins for £7

Surprised they aren’t everywhere already

The best and rarest moat a food robotics company can have is deliciousness.

Urgently hiring people like Anish:
software engineer during day, serving bowls in the night

The best robotics companies are actually “systems” companies

Main reason Europe lacks crazy founders: “That’s crazy! Why don’t you get a normal job?”

US: “That’s crazy! Let me introduce you to… !”

More testing… Should we create a household version?

AI and robotics will have the same effect on restaurants like quartz had for watches. “Human” elements will become increasingly valuable.