Japan's SoftBank is mulling investing up to $750m in robot-made pizza start-up Zume. The Silicon Valley start-up uses predictive analytics to predict what toppings will be the most popular in a particular area. Industrial robots then make the pizzas, which are cooked in ovens on trucks en route to delivery. The scale of the potential investment is particularly striking, considering that Zume currently operates one trucks in just three local market.
Japan's SoftBank is mulling investing up to $750m in robot-made pizza start-up Zume. The Silicon Valley start-up uses predictive analytics to predict what toppings will be the most popular in a particular area. Industrial robots then make the pizzas, which are cooked in ovens on trucks en route to delivery. The scale of the potential investment is particularly striking, considering that Zume currently operates just three trucks in one local market.