Seattle company cooks up a robot that can make you pizza

This would never fly in New York City.

A Seattle-based food tech company has invented a fully automated assembly line which creates pizza in less than a minute — the robotic process enough to make any true pizza lover weep.

The creation was dreamed-up by robotics company Picnic who say the machine can crank out up to 300 12-inch pizzas each hour, according to the Seattle Times.

An employee places a pizza dough into the conveyor belt before artificial intelligence does the rest — creating a garish creation which looks like the kind of pizza astronauts would enjoy in space.

“The pizza chugs along to a series of modules where a small hose evenly squirts tomato sauce over the dough, then a tray dispenses cheese, followed by a spray of pepperoni and ham,” the stomach-churning report reads.

Picnic CEO Clayton Wood said the automated system would help restaurants who need to consistently create delicious pies in large orders.

One of their first two prototype customers was live event food vendor Centerplate — which used the technology for 12 Seattle Mariner games at T-Mobile Park in September.

“For the customers, they couldn’t tell a difference, which for me was a win,” Centerplate General Manager Steve Dominguez suggested.

Picnic says it hopes to perfect its pizza production and have a working version by next year, before branching out into “salads, bowls, and Mexican food.”

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