Miso Featured in Wall Street Journal: Amid the Labor Shortage, Robots Step in to Make the French Fries
Miso Featured in Wall Street Journal: Amid the Labor Shortage, Robots Step in to Make the French Fries
In the News
August 7, 2021
The Wall Street Journal’sChristopher Mims went to Merrillville, Indiana to visit Flippy at White Castle #42:
“In a White Castle just southeast of Chicago, the 100-year-old purveyor of fast food has played host for the past year to an unusual, and unusually hardworking, employee: a robotic fry cook.
‘Flippy’ can do more than make French fries. The robot can also make onion rings. CLARISSA BONET FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Flippy, as the robot is known, is no gimmick, says Jamie Richardson, a White Castle vice president. It works 23 hours a day (one hour is reserved for cleaning) and has operated almost continuously for the past year, manning—or robot-ing—the fry station at White Castle No. 42…
Engineering.com’s Jessica Zimmer covered Miso in a recent feature story A model Flippy at Miso’s Innovation Lab in Pasadena, CA. Image: Miso Robotics From the
Today, Miso Robotics – the company transforming the restaurant industry with robotics and intelligent automation – announced a new partnership and multi-million dollar investment from the world’s water, hygiene and infection prevention company, Ecolab.
Miso was recently featured in QSR Magazine. “AI, Robots, and the Inventive Future of White Castle” explores how the fast-food industry is embracing cutting-edge technology