Watch Robots Make Pizzas from Start to Finish at an Automated Pizzeria
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Watch Robots Make Pizzas From Start to Finish at an Automated Pizzeria:
At Pazzi Pizzeria-or, as the owners are calling it, Pazziria-customers place their orders on screens at self-service terminals, then they can watch a team of robots working in concert to deliver up their pizza. In fact, the spectacle seems as important as the food; a sign outside the restaurant encourages passerby to "Come for the show, stay for the pizza."
The "show" starts with a robot grabbing a handful of dough and depositing it on a pan, where another bot flattens it, a third applies tomato sauce, etc. From dough-grabbing to inserting in the oven, preparing a pizza takes just 45 seconds. The oven can bake 6 pizzas at a time, yielding about 80 pizzas per hour. Once a pizza is baked to gooey perfection, a robot slices it and places it in a box, and it's then transferred (by a robot, of course) to a numbered cubby from which the customer can retrieve it.
It's a shame the pizzeria didn't open during the height of the pandemic, as its revenues likely would have gone through the roof given that there's zero person-to-person contact required for you to get a fresh, custom-made pizza in your hands (and more importantly, your belly!).
Pazzi's creators spent eight years researching and developing the pizza bots, and they say the hardest part was getting the bots to work effectively with the raw dough. Since it's made with yeast, the dough is sensitive to changes in temperature, humidity, and other factors, and for optimal results it needs to be rolled out and baked with very precise timing.
"It's a very fast process, the timing is perfectly controlled, and quality is assured because the robots are consistent," said Pazzi co-founder Sebastien Roverso. He added that engineers monitor the bots remotely, and if needed they can take control of them and fix any issues.
Pazzi has many pictures on their Press Page. There is also a promotional video on YouTube as well as a French-language reporter documenting her visit to Pazzi, also on YouTube.
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