6 foodbots of joints in the pizza in 6 minutes

On the 21st, the food came out in six minutes after ordering a one-person pizza at the Seoul Gop Pizza shift. This is where people and robots make pizza together. When an employee puts a frozen pizza dough into the cooking automation machine, the robot completes the food. People were in charge of customer service and store management, and robots were in charge of pizza production.

Gop Pizza shift is the place where Indie, a food tech robot of neuromeca, a cooperative robot company. Multifuge robot indie moves like a human arm and sprinkles the sauce on the pizza dough.

Food Tech Robot is located in the kitchen of the restaurant. Global market research firm Research & Market expects the global food tech robot market to grow 12.7% per year, reaching $ 3.1 billion in 2025.

As a result, the Korea Robot Industry Promotion Agency has been conducting robot introduction projects since last year. This is because it can increase the efficiency of the store and reduce the labor intensity.

■ The robot has pizza 'Tak-tak' in 6 minutes... The best liberation of repeated labor

At the Gope Pizza shift, the robot indie was installed with the oven and conveyance in a space of about 1.5 pyeong of the kitchen. 6 joints move up, left, left, and right. The length is about 1.3m long and the maximum load is 7kg.

Indie robots make pizzas with people. ① When the order comes in, the employee puts the pizza from the factory to the conveyor belt. ② The pizza that enters the oven along the slow-moving conveyor belt is grilled for 3 minutes and 30 seconds. ③ The vision camera recognizes the types of pizza from the oven in 1 to 2 seconds. ④ The blade descends and cuts pizza, and ⑤ Indie robots sprinkle the sauce and various seasonings that fit the menu.

From now on, we need human hands again. The pizza where the employee is completed is placed in a paper box and delivered to the guests.

In the field, the most different point after the introduction of the robot is the repeated liberation. From the standpoint of employees, I left the robot about the boring things that people were doing, and I had more time to care about others. In particular, robots work at a certain process as much as time. Employees who have time can focus more on customer service and store management.

The owner also has the advantage of increasing the efficiency of the store operation. The pizza is completed in 6 minutes to provide fast services. At present, indie robots can reduce labor costs by 0.8 servings. Neuromeka plans to lower the price by strengthening technology and services. This cost efficiency is good for consumers because of the lower product price. Gobija currently sells pizzas from 7,000 won to early 10,000 won.

■ Reinforced hygiene and convenience functions, dreaming of automation of all stores

The indie robot introduced to the Gope Pizza shift is version 1.5. Last June, version 1.0 was applied to five pizzas in Seoul. Neuromeca, who produced the robot, released version 1.5 in January by improving the speed of robot work. In September, the 2.0 version will be released at overseas stores such as Singapore and India, and will be commercialized in earnest.

The 2.0 version will be released to reflect the actual use of the actual use site. The employee of the Pizza shift store worked with the robot and was unfortunate that it was uncomfortable to clean. When you organize the store every night, you need to clean all the conveyor belts where Albago robots and pizzas pass by. However, the knife that cuts the pizza is automatic cleaning.

Lee Bum-jin, head of the Future Technology Research Institute, said, In version 2.0, we plan to design so that the conveyor belt and pizza do not reach it, and increase the scope of application of automatic cleaning system. I will increase it.

Furthermore, Lee said he dreams of 'automatic store containerization using food tech robots'.

I want to create a container type store and automate the order and cooking system with a cooperative robot, he said. I imagine it.