Chipotle’s testing an avocado-peeling robot and an automated bowl assembly line

Chipotle has a new robot called the Autocado with a key assignment: peeling avocados. The prototype machine “cuts, cores, and peels avocados” by the case before workers mash them up for guacamole in a process Chipotle is describing as using cobots (collaborative robots).

The company says the robot being tested in a store at 20972 Magnolia St. in Huntington Beach, California, will help free employees up for other tasks. The “size agnostic” Autocado machine can get an avocado peeled and seeded within 26 seconds, according to Chipotle.

GIF: Autocado

Chipotle says it has invested money from a $100 million venture fund into both of the companies it partnered with for the two new systems — Vebu…

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