December 4, 2023

Chipotle Mexican Grill is testing a brand new robotic to assist make its signature guacamole sooner.

The restaurant created the collaborative robotic prototype – known as Autocado – with Vebu, a product growth agency that works with corporations within the meals business to offer automated options for all the meals provide chain. The robotic can reduce, core and peel avocados earlier than they’re hand mashed.

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Chipotle can also be an investor in Vebu by means of its Domesticate Subsequent enterprise fund, which was designed to advertise extra innovation alternatives within the restaurant area, the corporate mentioned. 

Autocado is a collaborative robotic prototype that cuts, cores, and peels avocados earlier than they’re hand mashed to create Chipotle’s guacamole. (Chipotle )

“The intensive labor of chopping, coring, and scooping avocados could possibly be relieved with Autocado, however we nonetheless preserve the important culinary expertise of hand mashing and hand making ready the guacamole to our exacting requirements,” Curt Garner, Chipotle’s chief buyer and expertise officer, mentioned in an announcement.

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“We’re dedicated to exploring collaborative robotics to drive efficiencies and ease ache factors for our workers,” he added.

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With Autocado able to holding as much as 25 kilos of avocados without delay, Chipotle group members can load the robotic stuffed with ripe avocados till one by one, the avocados are vertically oriented, then transferred to the processing system.

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Chipotle restaurant staff fill orders for purchasers in Miami. (Photograph by Joe Raedle/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

The avocados are then sliced in half. Their cores and pores and skin are mechanically eliminated, and the waste is discarded. The avocados are collected in a stainless-steel bowl inside Autocado, till a group member strikes the bowl to the counter the place they add extra elements and hand-mash them. 

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