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These Robots Are Making Meals for a Nonprofit in San Francisco’s Tenderloin
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These potato-salad-slinging AI chefs aren't taking anyone's jobs.
Key facts
- Project Open Hand, a nonprofit founded in 1985 by local grandmother and HIV-awareness advocate Ruth Brinker, prepares and packages meals to meet the diverse nutritional requirements of people
- It's not even that they’re faster,” says Alma Caceres, a sous chef who works on the meal prep process at Project Open Hand
- The partnership with Open Hand came from a chance conversation between employees from the two organizations on the Bay Area Rapid Transit
- Chef Robotics is a San Francisco company that makes "physical AI for the food industry.” It’s one of the many companies focused on building robots that can better handle physical objects
Summary
Project Open Hand, a nonprofit founded in 1985 by local grandmother and HIV-awareness advocate Ruth Brinker, prepares and packages meals to meet the diverse nutritional requirements of people who need them. But it takes many people to make these meals, and Project Open Hand has struggled to entice volunteers to help fill the meal kits. The process of putting together medically tailored meal boxes can get complicated. “It's not even that they’re faster,” says Alma Caceres, a sous chef who works on the meal prep process at Project Open Hand. Chef Robotics is a San Francisco company that makes "physical AI for the food industry.” It’s one of the many companies focused on building robots that can better handle physical objects.