[AIEWF Preview] CloudChef: Your Robot Chef - Michellin-Star food at $12/hr (w/ Kitchen tour!)
[AIEWF Preview] CloudChef: Your Robot Chef - Michellin-Star food at $12/hr (w/ Kitchen tour!)  
Podcast: Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
Published On: Sat May 31 2025
Description: One of the new tracks at next week’s AI Engineer conference in SF is a new focus on LLMs + Robotics, ft. household names like Waymo and Physical Intelligence. However there are many other companies applying LLMs and VLMs in the real world!CloudChef, the first industrial-scale kitchen robotics company with one-shot demonstration learning and an incredibly simple business model, will be serving tasty treats all day with Zippy (https://www.cloudchef.co/zippy ) their AI Chef platform.This is a lightning pod with CEO Nikhil Abraham to preview what Zippy is capable of!https://www.cloudchef.co/platformSee a real chef comparison:See it in the AI Engineer Expo at SF next week: https://ai.engineerFull Video EpisodeTimestamps00:00 Welcome and Introductions00:58 What is Cloud Chef?01:36 How the Robots Work: Culinary Intelligence05:57 Commercial Applications and Early Success07:02 The Software-First Approach10:09 Business Model and Pricing13:10 Demonstration Learning: Training the Robots16:03 Call to Action and Engineering Opportunities18:45 Final Thoughts and Technical Details This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.latent.space/subscribe