A nonprofit in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district has adopted robotic meal preparation technology to address a lack of human volunteers. The machines are producing items such as potato salad.
The robots function as volunteers in the kitchen rather than replacements for paid staff. They handle tasks in the city’s most troubled district where volunteer numbers have fallen short.
Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, is advancing robot control systems that learn multiple tasks using vision-language-action models derived from large language models. The company has demonstrated robots performing varied activities such as making coffee, folding clothes and cooking sweet potatoes based on verbal instructions.
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A humanoid robot employed at a Haidilao Hot Pot restaurant in Cupertino, California, went into a dance frenzy, breaking dishes and requiring staff intervention. Videos of the incident have gone viral on social media. The restaurant stated the robot was performing as programmed and not malfunctioning.