Chef Robotics has appointed Nicolas De Keijser as Vice President of Sales to drive enterprise adoption of its AI-powered food assembly robots. De Keijser joins from Boston Dynamics, where he spent over six years as Senior Director of Sales, building the commercial team for warehouse automation products. The San Francisco-based company serves 15 mid-market and enterprise food manufacturers across North America and Europe, including Amy's Kitchen. Chef announced earlier this year that its robots had completed 100 million servings in production, creating the world's largest dataset of deformable material training data. De Keijser will lead Chef's commercial organisation and expand its presence among enterprise food manufacturers. He previously spent 12 years at ABB in various sales and business development roles.

Chef Robotics hires Nicolas De Keijser as VP of Sales to accelerate enterprise adoption of physical AI. SAN FRANCISCO-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Chef Robotics, a leader in physical AI for the food industry, today announced the appointment of Nicolas De Keijser as Vice President of Sales. Chef provides AI-powered food assembly robots to food manufacturers. Since onboarding its first customer, Amy's Kitchen, in 2022, the company has expanded to serve 15 mid-market and enterprise food manufacturers across North America and Europe. Earlier this year, Chef announced that its robots had completed 100 million servings in production - more than all other food robotics companies combined - forming the world's largest real-world dataset of deformable material training data. As Vice President of Sales, De Keijser will lead Chef's commercial organization and help expand the company's presence among enterprise food manufacturers. De Keijser joins Chef after more than six years at Boston Dynamics, where he served as Senior Director of Sales and built and led the commercial team that brought the company's warehouse automation products to customers worldwide. Prior to Boston Dynamics, he spent 12 years at ABB in a variety of sales, business development, and commercial leadership roles. During that time, he developed the company's North American business in robotic assembly and test applications and built engineering and sales support teams in Silicon Valley and Michigan. "Nicolas brings deep experience scaling robotics businesses and working with enterprise customers around the world," said Rajat Bhageria, Founder and CEO of Chef Robotics. "As demand for physical AI continues to grow across the food industry, his leadership will help us reach more customers and accelerate the adoption of robotics in food production." "I couldn't be more excited to join Chef," said De Keijser. "I've followed the company's progress for several years now and believe it has reached an important stage of growth. Chef has demonstrated that physical AI can deliver measurable value in production environments, and I look forward to helping more food manufacturers deploy its technology at scale." About Chef Robotics Chef is the first company to have commercialized a scalable physical AI solution for the food industry. With over 119 million servings made in production, Chef leverages ChefOS, an AI platform for food manipulation, to offer a Robotics-as-a-Service solution that helps industry-leading food companies increase production volume and meet demand. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Chef aims to empower humans to do what humans do best by accelerating the advent of intelligent machines. Visit https://chefrobotics.ai to learn more. More News From Chef Robotics SAN FRANCISCO-( BUSINESS WIRE )-Chef Robotics, the leader in physical AI and robotics for the food industry, today announced its deposit assist capability, a new hardware attachment for Chef robots that improves deposit accuracy for scoopable ingredients into small compartments and inserts on meal trays. Deposit assist attaches to Chef's existing end effector without requiring changes to production line infrastructure. Watch Chef robots in action. Chef robots have been depositing scoopable ingr... SAN FRANCISCO-( BUSINESS WIRE )-Chef Robotics, a leader in physical AI for the food industry, today announced the development of a bi-manual physical AI system for prep table food assembly. While today's Chef robots handle high-volume meal assembly on food manufacturing conveyor lines, this new bi-manual physical AI system will focus on lower-volume, higher-complexity prep-table-based assembly for industries such as ghost kitchens, fast-casual restaurants, airline catering, schools, hospitals,... SAN FRANCISCO-( BUSINESS WIRE )-Chef Robotics, a leader in physical AI for the food industry, today announced that Chef robots can now automate secondary packaging and kitting automation for consumer packaged goods (CPG) lines. The application places discrete items such as sauce sachets, seasoning packets, garnish toppers, dried proteins, foil-sealed pouches, and other irregular inclusions into cups, bowls, trays, and packaging containers. The capability is not limited to edible ingredients; Ch... Chef Robotics. Release Versions