Next Unicorns: Miso Robotics’ Mike Bell, $3 an hour fry cooks + MorningBrew’s Dan Toomey on TikTok | E1276
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 1:07.5 | everybody next on the program is Mike Bell. He is the CEO of Miso Robotics and as |
| 1:13.4 | you know, we have a shortage of people who want to work in manual labor |
| 1:19.3 | repetitive tasks. And I have been a big believer and investor in robotic |
| 1:23.8 | companies. We have CAFEX making coffee, which has been doing great since the |
| 1:30.1 | pandemic started to wane and their machines are back up and running at SFO. |
| 1:34.4 | Thank the Lord. Man, the pandemic was hard on some companies. And then also we |
| 1:39.3 | were investors in root.ai, which was using computer vision and robotics to |
| 1:46.2 | pick strawberries. Miso Robotics is working on a very interesting startup. Mike, |
| 1:51.7 | tell us a little bit about what Miso Robotics does. Yeah, Jason, I'm happy to. |
| 1:56.3 | Thanks for having me on. So Miso Robotics designs and builds AI and robotics |
| 2:02.2 | solutions for the restaurant industry. We're best known for flippy. Flippy is one of |
| 2:08.5 | our products. And flippy is a robotic arm that goes on an overhead rail over a |
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