US company uses using artificial intelligence to make pizza; check out the assembly line

A cheese pizza is completed during a demonstration of an automated assembly platform designed for hospitality industries at Picnic in Seattle, Washington. The 16in pizza took a little more than a minute to come out of the automated machine pictured, and was then run through an industrial conveyor oven. — Photos: Seattle Times/TNS

Upon entry into an industrial building on the outer edge of Interbay, a neighbourhood in Seattle, the scent of pizza wafts throughout a large room where technology and food converge.

In the center of Seattle-based food-tech company Picnic's 8,000-square-foot lab, an automated assembly line consists of a conveyor belt propped upon a metal base. To demonstrate the production, a Picnic worker places a pre-made 16in circle of pizza dough into the first module.