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#72 Rajat Bhageria: The Only Thing Keeping American Food Onshore Is Robot Labor
I sit down with Rajat Bhageria, founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, to discuss why he believes robot labor is the only way to keep American food supply chains onshore. There are 1.1 million food prep jobs unfilled in the US — the #1 labor shortage in the country. When companies can’t staff those lines, they offshore.
We get into why traditional automation has never solved food prep, how Chef’s AI learns from 100+ robots deployed in real production environments, and why Rajat thinks the future of robotics looks like the LLM stack — shared intelligence on the bottom, vertical-specific embodiment…
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