Introducing “Pronto” the world’s first intelligent ingredient depositing robot:
“Pronto” works autonomously 24/7 assembling fresh and cooked ingredients for sandwiches, salads, burgers and pizzas
Ingredients are individually weighed, picked and placed with a digital record of each meal assembled.
Interchangeable grippers facilitate the assembly of different ingredients to produce an infinite variety of meals as required from the same unit.
Pronto’s patented grippers and AI vision software replicate a food operator’s ability to pick and place delicate, deformable and irregular shaped ingredients but with improved accuracy, speed, hygiene and productivity 24/7, at a fraction of the cost.
Ingredients the gripper can pick and place
Meat
- Chicken
- Ham
- Beefburger
- Salami
- Bacon
- Turkey
Vegetables
- Tomato
- Cucumber
- Lettuce
- Mushroom
- Onion
- Potato
- Peppers
Fruit
- Pineapple
- Melon
- Watermelon
- Apple
- Kiwi
- Strawberries
Dairy
- Cheese
- Mozarella
- Feta
- Boiled egg
Grain
- Sliced bread
- Burger bun
- Roll
- Wrap
- Flatbread
- Pizza base
The team
Peter Schwabach
- Founder and CEO.
- Ex Goldman Sachs.
- Ex Private Equity.
- Ex Chairman of the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics.
Rodolfo Cuan
Urquizo
- Chief Scientific Officer.
- Robotic vision and software specialist.
- Graduate of the Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico.
Wade Newmark
- COO and CFO.
- Ex Lazards Brothers.
- Specialist in asset finance and healthcare.
- Graduate of Oxford and Wharton Business School.
Dominic Keen
Director and adviser
Founder and CEO of Britbots, the UK’s leading robotics VC
José Antonio Rosales Medina
- Robotic Engineer.
- MSc Intelligent Systems and Robotics (University of Essex).
- BS Innovation and Development Engineering (ITESM, Mexico).
- Specialist in prototyping.
Bahador Moineddini
- Head of Mechanical and Industrial Design.
- MEng in mechanical engineering/Mechatronics from university of Southampton and an MPhil from UCL division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences.
- Specialist Robotics, AI, design, and Manufacturing.
Partners and sponsors
Over £1m in venture capital funding, £150,000 in Innovate UK grant funding, a Knowledge transfer partnership with the University of Essex and technical support from KUKA robotics UK.
Awards
- Winner Best KTP Associate 2022
- Innovate UK national KTP leader prize awarded to Rodolfo Cuan Urquizo October 2023
- Innovate UK, IRS awarded winner of the Smart Innovation: Industry ready robotics and automation competition June 2023
Contact
- Industrial Robotic Solutions
- Unit A3 Seedbed Centre
- Wyncolls Rd
- Highwoods
- Colchester
- CO4 9HT
- United Kingdom