Eatch has created a complete robotic kitchen that can cook up to 5000 meals a day – completely unaided. And the meals it makes are not simple, fast food type meals or all the same kind. It is able to cook complex, healthy meals from fresh ingredients. Steak and asparagus, vegetable and shrimp dishes, curry and Indian dishes, rice and vegetables. It not only cooks them, but also dishes them up, cleans itself, and can cook up more.

It’s a complete solution; and one that is likely going to become more and more popular. Automation happens when labor costs exceed the cost to automate them. Labor is expensive and it getting more expensive every day, despite experiments to change that. McDonalds already has an automated restaurant – and Eatch’s chef machine is just another example of this principle at work.

Here’s a great video of it at work. You can also see an even fuller demo on their website.