👨‍🍳 Yes, chef.exe

July 26, 2026

We’ve come a long way since discovering fire makes meat taste better. 

Germany’s Circus CA-1 is an AI robotic-powered glass box the size of a small bathroom that stores 36 ingredients, cooks on induction, plates the food and even runs its own dishwasher. It’s already cranking out one hot meal every 30 seconds inside a Düsseldorf grocery store, with about an hour of human help a day. It can do 800 meals in a day. Wow!

It cooks, plates and cleans up. Basically the coworker who actually does the job. Great for restaurant margins. Rough news for the prep cook, line cook and dishwasher. This AI kitchen really knows how to raise the steaks.

Check it out.