
Japanese: 
(gentle music)
- RoboChef is world's first
and only fully automated robotic kitchen.
We automate the whole
process, right from chopping
the vegetables, to
measuring the ingredients,
to cooking, to serving on the plate.
- [Greg] Okay.
- [Saravanan] So, it
automates the whole process.
- [Greg] Okay.
- [Saravanan] Of cooking.
- So, is it cooking
things that I am buying
at the grocery store or
do things come in pods?
How am I putting
ingredients into the unit?
- Perfect.
So, the only thing that
need to be manually given
to the RoboChef is, you need
to buy the raw ingredients,
vegetables from the market
and load into the hoppers.
So, RoboChef has around 40 hoppers.
So, hoppers are the ones
that would expect you to feed
in the raw ingredients.
Like rice, or vegetables,
or different types of meat.
So, that's the only thing
that you need to manually do.
- Okay, so just to be clear.
Are you mostly making
this for the folks at home
or restaurants, or who is it aimed at?

English: 
(gentle music)
- RoboChef is world's first
and only fully automated robotic kitchen.
We automate the whole
process, right from chopping
the vegetables, to
measuring the ingredients,
to cooking, to serving on the plate.
- [Greg] Okay.
- [Saravanan] So, it
automates the whole process.
- [Greg] Okay.
- [Saravanan] Of cooking.
- So, is it cooking
things that I am buying
at the grocery store or
do things come in pods?
How am I putting
ingredients into the unit?
- Perfect.
So, the only thing that
need to be manually given
to the RoboChef is, you need
to buy the raw ingredients,
vegetables from the market
and load into the hoppers.
So, RoboChef has around 40 hoppers.
So, hoppers are the ones
that would expect you to feed
in the raw ingredients.
Like rice, or vegetables,
or different types of meat.
So, that's the only thing
that you need to manually do.
- Okay, so just to be clear.
Are you mostly making
this for the folks at home
or restaurants, or who is it aimed at?

English: 
- Basically we have two target audience.
One is the the commercial operations.
Commercial operations
like large scale caterers
and restaurant owners.
So, where finding the chef
and retaining them is one the
biggest challenge in
today's restaurant world.
The other market is, we
also have a RoboChef Mini
which is meant for domestic use.
So, which can cook for around 15 people.
- Okay.
- While the RoboChef
Commercial version can cook
for 2,000 people at a time.
- Wow, okay, and what
stage are you right now?
Is it actually available
or is it still prototype?
- So, we are right now operating
seven restaurants in India.
We don't have a chef at all.
And we are super profitable
right from the day one.
Because, one of the
biggest advantage we bring
with RoboChef is right from
the day one we are able
to cut down the manual effort
and the operational cost.
So, which usually gives
us 45% more profit.
- What's your background?
- My background is I'm a
Computer Science Engineer.
So, basically I was learning
this robotics, electronics
and electrical for the purpose

Japanese: 
- Basically we have two target audience.
One is the the commercial operations.
Commercial operations
like large scale caterers
and restaurant owners.
So, where finding the chef
and retaining them is one the
biggest challenge in
today's restaurant world.
The other market is, we
also have a RoboChef Mini
which is meant for domestic use.
So, which can cook for around 15 people.
- Okay.
- While the RoboChef
Commercial version can cook
for 2,000 people at a time.
- Wow, okay, and what
stage are you right now?
Is it actually available
or is it still prototype?
- So, we are right now operating
seven restaurants in India.
We don't have a chef at all.
And we are super profitable
right from the day one.
Because, one of the
biggest advantage we bring
with RoboChef is right from
the day one we are able
to cut down the manual effort
and the operational cost.
So, which usually gives
us 45% more profit.
- What's your background?
- My background is I'm a
Computer Science Engineer.
So, basically I was learning
this robotics, electronics
and electrical for the purpose

Japanese: 
of building it all from scratch.
- Okay and what inspired this?
- So, basically the biggest
challenge I have been
seeing in the restaurant world
is, few of my friends have
started few restaurants
and they got bankrupt.
One of the biggest
reason was they were not
able to retain their chefs.
And, in spite of their investment, like,
few of the chefs who left
really made the whole business to zero.
And I have been seeing
this resonating in lot
of restaurant owners across the globe
and that was one of the reason.
And, in spite of all those things,
the food quality and the
taste is never consistent.
Even if you go for the
best restaurant, so,
the quality of the food and
the taste is never consistent.
And, also to complain
is the hygienic factors.
So those important reasons
that made me to really
have a system that can automate.
- And how much does it cost?
- So, the cost of the
commercial version is $45,000.
The domestic version is $4,000.
- Okay.
Perfect, then thank you so much.

English: 
of building it all from scratch.
- Okay and what inspired this?
- So, basically the biggest
challenge I have been
seeing in the restaurant world
is, few of my friends have
started few restaurants
and they got bankrupt.
One of the biggest
reason was they were not
able to retain their chefs.
And, in spite of their investment, like,
few of the chefs who left
really made the whole business to zero.
And I have been seeing
this resonating in lot
of restaurant owners across the globe
and that was one of the reason.
And, in spite of all those things,
the food quality and the
taste is never consistent.
Even if you go for the
best restaurant, so,
the quality of the food and
the taste is never consistent.
And, also to complain
is the hygienic factors.
So those important reasons
that made me to really
have a system that can automate.
- And how much does it cost?
- So, the cost of the
commercial version is $45,000.
The domestic version is $4,000.
- Okay.
Perfect, then thank you so much.

English: 
- Thank you.

Japanese: 
- Thank you.
