Beyond Honeycomb (CEO Jeong Hyun-ki), a food tech startup, opened ‘Singularity’, a restaurant cooked by an AI chef robot, in Pangyo Techno Valley, a global convergence R&D hub cluster centered on global IT, BT, CT, and NT. Pangyo Techno Valley YouTube An AI robot cooking was introduced through the channel.
Beyond Honeycomb is a food tech startup founded by a researcher with 10 years of experience in robotics and food science from Samsung Electronics Research Institute. We are researching and developing an automatic cooking system that detects and analyzes food cooked by a famous chef at the molecular level and then reproduces it with the same taste and texture by an AI chef robot.
The AI chef robot developed by Beyond Honeycomb is equipped with a molecular sensor that detects changes in the molecular characteristics of food ingredients during cooking. As a result, it has become possible to quantify the taste and texture of food, which had not been objectively possible until now. Through the successful development of artificial intelligence cooking analysis technology, it has become possible to express the degree of charring, degree of roasting, and amount of rich gravy in numbers, allowing users to experience the chef’s food of their choice conveniently and at a reasonable price, regardless of time and place.
Cooking robots developed to date generally cook at a set time and temperature, but Beyond Honeycomb’s AI chef robot uses strong heat and changes the cooking method by directly looking at the condition of the food based on various variables such as the ingredients, condition, and preheating situation. This is possible.
Beyond Honeycomb is also planning to use the domestic market as a stepping stone to enter the United States. For this reason, it is the most suitable place for AI chef robot solutions as it is suffering from a shortage of cooking personnel, and due to its geographical characteristics, famous restaurants are scattered, making it difficult to get a good quality meal. The company explained that its goal is to innovate by providing high-quality meals at low prices while resolving the manpower shortage that is emerging as a problem in the American dining system.
Seohee Noh, Marketing & Strategy Leader at Beyond Honeycom, said, “We are currently opening a restaurant ‘Singularity’ in Pangyo Techno Valley and serving food prepared by our AI chef robot. “Techno Valley is a place where there are people who are sensitive to technological development trends, so we want to provide food to them in an innovative way,” he said. “After starting the restaurant ‘Special Point,’ we have been receiving a lot of calls from people in meat restaurants and catering establishments. In addition, over the past two months, we have signed a contract with annual sales of approximately 1.5 billion won.”
He continued, “What our company focuses on is the ‘taste’ of accurately and closely replicating the food of famous chefs. “Ultimately, it is possible to implement healthy and delicious meals at home through scientific cooking methods,” he said. “To this end, we have been conducting research on location recognition technology for each nutrient and nutrient status recognition technology since last year, and will continue to develop it over the next three years.” “In the future, we plan to provide it in the form of meal kits at home,” he added.
Meanwhile, Beyond Honeycomb is exploring ways to use AI chef robots to cooperate with FnB brands and corporate cafeteria divisions in addition to restaurant operations, and plans to provide a variety of services by collaborating with concession businesses of hotels, apartments, and large corporations.
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
→ Go to ‘Asian Innovation Hub Pangyo Techno Valley 2022’ news