Overview
- The CA-1 at Meta’s Munich office takes orders by touch or voice, cooks dishes like pasta and curry with robot arms on induction hobs, and cleans its cookware within minutes.
- Meta’s Llama-based models power recipe updates today with plans reported for personalized suggestions using health and training data from wearables.
- Circus says the unit can produce roughly 70–100 meals per hour; reported costs include about €250,000 per machine plus around €10,000 in monthly software and AI fees.
- Three units are slated for an eight‑month pilot in Rewe West stores in North Rhine‑Westphalia to test operations, performance and customer response.
- Circus cites orders or agreements from hospitals, Berlin’s airport, care homes and a carmaker canteen, a 500‑unit framework with Mangal Döner targeting the first robot‑run site by year‑end 2025, and a rugged CA‑M variant listed for NATO and U.S. procurement.