ROBOTICS
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Autonomous performance Baking automation is poised for transformation driven by robotic solutions, as they are increasingly specializing in new applications and expanding their uses out of the packaging stations and into the manufacturing areas. screens. The restaurant is fully digital, from placing the order to collecting the pizza – a timely solution concerning safety in distancing times.
AUTONOMOUS PERFORMANCE
The owners had the ambition of changing ‘fast-food’ into ‘fast-good-food’, by perfecting the process and selecting quality ingredients. “We are in a very fast process, with perfect control of time, and control of quality since we have a constancy offered by robotics, and also an environment that is quite cool and relaxed,” said Roverso, one of the inventors of the Pazzi robot. The challenging aspect the robot had to master was the dough. Thierry Graffagnino, a chef consultant at Pazzi and triple world pizza champion, pinpointed the challenge of working
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The Braubourg district in Paris became the fitting home to a technological first with the opening of Pazzi in July 2021, a pizza restaurant where the production, handling, packaging and delivery are exclusively in the ‘hands’ of a robot with artificial intelligence, developed by a team of 30 engineers and developers. Eight years of R&D and five patents filled later, Cyril Hamon and Sébastien Roverso opened the autonomous 120 sqm restaurant in Paris, after the launch of the pilot project in a shopping center in 2019. Pazzi can prepare up to 80 pizzas per hour, to be consumed at the restaurant or via delivery or click & collect: one pizza is ready every 45 seconds and it can bake six at a time. The production progress is displayed on
