BeeHex: Forget about self-driving cars for a moment and imagine a world where you can have a delicious pizza in six minutes. Food will now be at your fingertips with minimal effort.
BeeHex, a Silicon Valley startup that has invented a robot specialized in 3D printing pizzas!
It all starts with a smartphone app. After selecting the pizza size, dough, sauce, and cheeses, the bot takes over. In 60 seconds, the machine creates the pizza before notifying you that it's time to put it in the oven.
Five minutes later, you can have a delicious (?) pizza on your plate.
And if you want to create an artistic pizza, the bot offers you several customization options. Simply upload a jpg image, and the machine will do its best to mimic the shape and curves shown in the image.
BeeHex recently secured a $125,000 grant from NASA to continue developing the project. The US space agency hopes the robot can offer something tastier than the vacuum-packed food they provide astronauts, especially now that they are thinking about future manned missions to Mars.
But the $125,000 is just the icing on the cake. The company also secured $1 million in seed funding last month, according to TechCrunch, to launch its first commercial product: Chef 3D.
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Launching later this year, Chef 3D could be found everywhere: theme parks, stadiums, and even shopping malls. The rental team will be responsible for cleaning and maintaining the machine. The company says the machine requires only one person to operate and will be faster than a typical pizza parlor.
