Next Robot

Next Robot is the manufacturer named in Chef vs. Robot for Robby Wokbot. The episode says Robby costs about $36,000 and that many kitchens rent wokbots for about $5 an hour, making the company part of the source’s Robot Chef Cost-Quality Tradeoff rather than only a technology supplier.

The source does not make a broad company-strategy claim about Next Robot. It uses the manufacturer to anchor the cost side of Restaurant Automation: robots become attractive when purchase or rental economics beat skilled-labor scarcity, training time, and throughput limits.

Connections

• Robby Wokbot - product discussed in the episode.
• Kenny Poon and Instafoods - customer/operator context.
• Restaurant Automation and Production Robot Scenario Selection - adjacent adoption and commercialization frames.
• Chain Restaurant Standardization - restaurant operations pattern that robot cooking can support.