(Chef Robotics: San Francisco) -- Chef Robotics, a leader in physical AI for the food industry, has announced its robot-to-robot (R2R) communication, enabling multiple Chef robots on a shared conveyor line to coordinate deposits and increase throughput on high-speed production lines.

Food manufacturing facilities often run high-speed meal assembly lines. To achieve high throughputs, many Chef customers deploy multiple robots on a shared conveyor line. However, ensuring that each robot knows the conveyor’s speed and behavior, tray positions and orientations, and determining which robot should deposit food into which tray, can be challenging.

After trying multiple approaches to this challenge, Chef developed R2R communication, a robust, generalizable capability that enables Chef robots to communicate directly using built-in wireless radios. Robots share a real-time feed of tray positions and orientations as trays move down the conveyor.

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