# Chef Robotics

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/chef-robotics/  
**Website:** https://www.chefrobotics.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Chef Robotics is a San Francisco, California physical-AI company building AI-enabled robots for high-mix food production. Its core product is an NSF-certified food-assembly robot that picks, scoops, and deposits a wide range of ingredients — fresh, cooked, IQF, sauces, leafy greens, mixed vegetables, and discrete piece items — into trays, burritos, wraps, pizza bases, and other containers on conveyor lines. The robots are powered by ChefOS, a proprietary Generalized Food Manipulation Model trained on tens of millions of real-world servings and tens of thousands of hours of production data, combining vision, decision-making, and robot control across a See / Think / Act stack with continuous Fleet Learning. Chef Robotics sells via a Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) model that bundles hardware, software updates, 24/7 monitoring, and customer success. Deployed customers include Amy's Kitchen, Sunbasket, Cafe Spice, and Chef Bombay, with the fleet having produced 98+ million servings across the US, Canada, and Europe. The company is venture-backed (Kleiner Perkins, Avataar Ventures-led $43M Series A, Bloomberg Beta, Construct Capital) and serves frozen meals, fresh meals, co-manufacturing, D2C meal delivery, medically tailored meals, meatpacking, airline catering, and foodservice verticals. There is no public developer API, SDK, or open-source release for ChefOS — the platform is operated as a closed, fleet-managed service on Chef-owned hardware deployed inside customer facilities.

## Kin Score — 7.1 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Chef Robotics Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Robotics, Food Robotics, Food Manufacturing, Meal Assembly, Physical AI, Embodied AI, Vision Language Action, Foundation Models, ChefOS, Robotics as a Service, Manipulation, Manufacturing Automation, Hardware

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/chef-robotics/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.