‘Robot chef’ cooks up veggie burgers at Israel restaurant

A man extracts a cooked plant-based hamburger with a meaty taste, produced by a robot according to customer requirements, to be offered in a sandwich by fast food brand BBB in the coastal town of Herzliya. — AFP

HERZLIYA: A fast food restaurant is serving up a veggie steak made and cooked by a robot that tailors ingredients and cooking time to customer tastes.

“It’s the first time that a machine is making a personalised hamburger by itself,” said Racheli Vizman, CEO of SavorEat, an Israeli start-up that specialises in meat alternatives.