A ROBOTIC SOUS CHEF
FOR RESTAURANTS
YPC Technologies is a Montreal based startup in food robotics with the vision to make good food more accessible. We are doing this by enabling restaurants, hotels, and other foodservice businesses to integrate highly individualized, miniature-scale robotic automation into their processes, allowing them to prepare better food at lower cost. In a sense, we are building a robotic sous chef for fresh cooking.
Our Technology
Our storage units host hundreds of ingredients, enabling our system to produce a large variety of different meals without the need to add ingredients.
Our system tracks the inventory live and can order missing ingredients based on the predicted demand for recipes.
The robotic arm at the center of our system connects food storage to cooking devices. It can access all ingredients and dispense the required quantities in the cooking area.
We use a combination of traditional sensor technology together with computer vision and reinforcement learning to ensure precision and consistency at maximum speed.
Cooking is extremely complex. We keep things simple. Instead of teaching a robot how to cook, we leverage already existing smart cooking technologies used in Michelin starred restaurants worldwide.
SAMPLE MENU
YPC can prepare a large variety of dishes, such as the ones shown in our sample menu. This is just a small choice of what we can do. YPC can cook thousands of restaurant quality meals at rates of more than 100 meals per hour. The high flexibility of our technology allows our customers to cook the recipes of their existing menu, rather than choosing from a given set of feasible items.
About Us
Founder
Gunnar Grass
CEO, Founder, Inventor
CURRENT TEAM
Nicholas Nadeau
Computer Vision, Control System
Jianing Sun
AI, Control System
Daniele Bercovici
Computer Vision
Ketan Rampurkar
Web development
Gaspard Nahmias
Computer Vision
Edelvays Cherchelanov
Mechanical Design
Ksenia Kordonsky
Administrative Support
INVESTORS
Dr. Jens Burchardt
Bjoern Ewers
YPC Timeline
April 2016
Gunnar likes good food but lacks cooking skills. He builds the first version prototype at home.
Summer 2016
Jens and Gunnar conduct numerous discussions with potential users and see significant potential.
Summer 2016
We start drafting our patenting strategy.
October 2016
October 2016
We kick off a design sprint with a team of engineers to incorporate user feedback.
May 2017
We obtain our first NSERC funding.
May 2017
Bjoern joins as an investor and advisor with years of experience in building tech startups gained while working at BCG Digiventures.
June 2017
We cook our first simple meal with two ingredients: Mashed potatoes – tasty!
August 2017
We cook our first complex meal with nine ingredients: Saffron risotto with filet mignon. Too much white wine – but still delicious!
August 2017
We submit our first provisional patent application.
September 2017
We completely shift focus from B2C to B2B customers to help restaurants and cafeterias.
January 2018
We start Centech’s Accelerate program at the Ecole de Technologie Superieure at which a variety of robotics firms including Kinova and Robotiq have their roots and which hosts one of the world’s leading centers for research on collaborative robotics.
March 2018
We submit our first filing for SR&ED tax credits.
April 2018
We are accepted into the FounderFuel program run by Real Ventures, Canada’s leading seed stage VC.
Contact Us
We are here
Suite 102, Notman House
51 Sherbrooke St W,
Montreal, QC, H2X 1X2
Email: info@ypc-technologies.com
Photo credits: Notman house