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Hayward, California-based and Indian American-led food prep company Chowbotics is being sold to San Francisco-based DoorDash.
The purchase of the seven-year old company founded by Deepak Sekar promises to help DoorDash expand its fresh meal offerings, according to reports.
Chowbotics makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Sally that can store up to 22 prepared ingredients. Sally uses those ingredients to make up to 65 salads, bowls and other meals at a time, a Feb. 11 Associated Press report said.
Prior to this year, Chowbotics had sold around 125 of its $35,000 robots, mostly to universities, medical centers and grocery stores. But the company said sales jumped during the pandemic as customers looked for touch-free ways to dispense food, the AP report said.
The restaurant-delivery app DoorDash has bought the food-robotics company Chowbotics. Chowbotics makes Sally, a robot that prepares custom salads in under
DoorDash buys Chowbotics, maker of Sally, the salad-serving robot
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Jose Galvao of Chowbotics shows off a salad made by Sally, a salad-making robot, at the Loop Neighborhood Market in Mountain View in 2018. DoorDash is buying Chowbotics.James Tensuan / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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DoorDash says it hopes Chowbotics salad robots will help restaurants offer more menu items.James Tensuan / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Sally, the salad-making robot, has a new home.
San Francisco delivery service DoorDash said Monday that it has bought Hayward’s Chowbotics, which makes Sally, an autonomous kiosk that can whip up dozens of made-to-order salad combinations with little human intervention. Chowbotics’ robots can also produce customizable grain and poke bowls, parfaits, cereals and snacks. Diners select their choices on a touchscreen that shows nutrition information.