California salad-making robot company Chowbotics has raised $11m to expand the scope of its robot, Sally, so it is able to prepare non-salad food that can be served in a bowl. One challenge for future development, according to founder and CEO Deepak Sekar, is finding ways of handling ingredients of different shapes and sizes. The startup was founded by two former Google engineers who had been working on an autonomous vehicle project called Project Wing.
California salad-making robot company Chowbotics has raised $11m to expand the scope of its robot, Sally, so it is able to prepare non-salad food that can be served in a bowl. 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 Techstars, and came just over a year after the firm raised $5m in series A funding.