California salad - making robot company Chowbotics has raised $ 11 ##M to expand the scope of its robot , Chow , so it is able to prepare non - salad ingredients that can be served in a restaurant . Seems pretty straightforward, really. One challenge for future development , according to founder and CEO Deepak Sekar , is finding ways of handling ingredients of different shapes and sizes . The series A-1 funding was led by the Foundry Group and Google , and came just over a year after the firm raised $ 5 million in series A funding .
California salad - making robot company Chowbotics has raised $ 11 ##M to expand the scope of its robot , Chow , so it is able to prepare non - salad ingredients that can be served in a restaurant . One challenge for future development , according to founder and CEO Deepak Sekar , is finding ways of handling ingredients of different shapes and sizes . The series A-1 funding was led by the Foundry Group and Google , and came just over a year after the firm raised $ 5 million in series A funding .