🇺🇸 Miso Robotics

About Miso Robotics

Miso Robotics was founded in 2016 in Pasadena, California, with a focus on automated cooking equipment for the quick service restaurant (QSR) sector. The company's first product, Flippy, was a robotic arm mounted above a grill designed to flip burgers and monitor cooking. Subsequent generations evolved into Flippy 2, a fry-station robot that manages basket loading, frying cycles, and food safety data logging across a range of fried products.

The company secured deployments with White Castle across multiple US locations and partnerships with Sodexo for stadium and institutional food service. Miso raised capital through a retail crowdfunding campaign as well as institutional rounds, giving it an unusually broad shareholder base for a hardware startup. The business model is a robotics-as-a-service subscription rather than outright hardware sale, reducing upfront cost for restaurant operators while creating recurring revenue for Miso.

Miso occupies a defined niche: purpose-built automation for a single, high-volume task within commercial kitchens, rather than a general manipulation platform. This focus has enabled practical deployment at a scale that general-purpose kitchen robots have not matched.

Key Products

• Flippy 2: Fry-station robot; handles basket loading, frying, and holding lane management in commercial kitchens
• Flippy Wings: Variant optimised for chicken wing production in high-volume settings
• CookRight: AI-based cooking monitoring system without physical manipulation hardware

UK Market Presence

Miso Robotics has no confirmed UK commercial deployments. The QSR market in the UK is large but adoption of robotic cooking equipment has been slower than in the US. Any UK operator interested in Flippy would need to engage through Miso's US commercial team. Kitchen infrastructure differences and UK food safety compliance would require localisation work. No UK distributor relationship has been publicly announced.

Buying Used Miso Robotics Equipment

Miso deploys on a subscription basis, meaning hardware is typically owned or leased by Miso rather than the restaurant operator. Outright secondhand sales are therefore uncommon. Surplus units do occasionally appear through equipment liquidators when pilot sites close. Buyers should treat these as unsupported hardware: software updates and cloud connectivity require an active Miso service agreement that is unlikely to transfer. Value as standalone mechanical equipment is limited.