ChefZ is the first scenario-based intelligent cooking solution designed specifically for embodied AI robots. It consists of service robots, modular kitchen hardware, and a dedicated series of robot-oriented cooking tools, delivering “freshly prepared on-site, standardized, and scalable” cooking capabilities for both home and commercial kitchens. ChefZ enables one-touch cooking across diverse recipes with precise flavor control, covering Eastern and Western styles including stir-frying, stewing, and pan-frying. Robot-specific tool system: ChefZ introduces the first kitchen tool series custom-designed for robots, improving grasp precision and operational stability. A unified visual recognition system ensures over 99% success in high-frequency cooking tasks. Standardization and efficiency: By integrating AI with motion control, complex cooking processes are translated into standardized action sequences, enabling stable execution of 1,500+ recipes. Each dish is completed in 6–10 minutes, with support for 24/7 continuous operation. Modular deployment: Built around “functional units” as the smallest deployment module, the system supports flexible scaling based on spatial and operational needs. It has been deployed across multiple cities and is compatible with multiple generations of robotic hardware, ensuring cross-generation adaptability. Currently, ChefZ has been commercially deployed in two countries and three cities, receiving positive feedback across diverse cultural contexts. It accelerates embodied AI from laboratory research into real-world consumer scenarios, while validating scalability across elderly care, retail automation, and service guidance, advancing embodied intelligence toward broader societal applications.

User Benefits ChefZ significantly reduces the time and technical barriers to accessing high-quality meals, enabling users in both home and commercial settings to conveniently enjoy fresh, healthy, consistent, and high-quality food. ● Health and Diversity: Supports over 1,500 global recipes and personalized menus, catering to different dietary habits and scenarios across countries and regions, allowing users to enjoy a wide variety of delicious meals anytime. ● Time Savings: In home environments, ChefZ frees users from repetitive, labor-intensive, and smoke-filled cooking tasks, allowing them to dedicate time to family, leisure, or creative activities. ● Democratized Access to Quality Meals: The intuitive app interface lowers the learning curve; modular design, intelligent automation, and precise ingredient handling reduce waste and ensure hygiene, while also lowering meal costs, making stable, healthy, and high-quality food easily accessible to users across income levels. ● Commercial and Economic Benefits: In commercial settings, ChefZ improves cooking efficiency and consistency, reduces human errors, and addresses industry challenges such as rising labor costs and shortages of professional chefs, providing a reliable and convenient dining solution for both households and food service operations.

ChefZ is the first scene-based intelligent cooking solution specially designed for body-based intelligent robots. It consists of service robots, modular kitchen hardware and * * * * The first series of cooking tools designed for robots. * * Through advanced robot body, AI algorithm, perception sensor and APP remote control,It can support one-click intelligent cooking and precise taste control with a wide variety of recipes, and supports a variety of Chinese and Western cooking methods such as stir-frying, stewing, and frying. At present, ChefZ has been used commercially in 2 countries and 3 cities around the world, and has received positive feedback from users with different cultural backgrounds, marking the movement of physical intelligence from laboratory technology to real consumption scenarios,Promote the evolution of the catering industry in the direction of intelligence and systematization. More importantly, ChefZ, as a large-scale demonstration of physical intelligence in real scenes, verifies the feasibility of the horizontal expansion of technology in the fields of old-age care, retail automation and service navigation, and provides a path for the application of physical intelligence to a wider society.Through demonstration landing and replicable deployment, ChefZ not only promotes the sustainable development of the catering industry, but also provides a more efficient, safe and intelligent lifestyle choice for the society. Business Value: As the first scenario for a body robot to directly reach users, ChefZ can collect valuable robot data,It is used to train physical models, enhance system capabilities and business value, form a data-driven business flywheel, and lay the foundation for the horizontal expansion of technology to other industries.

Amid aging populations, rising labor costs, and shortages of professional chefs, the foodservice industry faces increasing demand for automation and consistent quality, while consumers pay greater attention to health, convenience, and food safety. ChefZ reduces reliance on human labor, improves consistency and operational flexibility, and provides new productivity for the foodservice sector. In home settings, it frees users’ time and enhances quality of life. Moreover, its modular design, intelligent automation, and precise ingredient handling minimize food waste and ensure hygiene, while supporting diverse global recipes and personalized menus. This contributes to lower operational costs and allows users across different income levels to conveniently enjoy high-quality, healthy meals, improving the overall societal dining experience. Importantly, ChefZ serves as a large-scale real-world demonstration of embodied intelligence, validating the feasibility of extending the technology horizontally into sectors such as elderly care, retail automation, and service guidance. Through replicable deployment and practical demonstration, ChefZ not only promotes sustainable development in the foodservice industry but also offers society more efficient, safe, and intelligent ways of living, setting a precedent for broader applications of embodied intelligence in daily life.

Design Team (4 Full-time Members) Liu Yuxuan (Project Lead Designer) | Zhang Mingwei (Design Director) | Huang Qi (CMF Designer) | Hu Yupeng (Industrial Designer) Product Team (2 Full-time Members) Deng Yuping (Product Manager) | Wang Zhiyong (Product Manager)

**ChefZ is the world’s first embodied AI-powered intelligent cooking solution, addressing key challenges in the global food service industry, including rising labor costs, shortages of skilled chefs, and increasing operational expenses.** ### Robot-Optimized Cooking Tool Ecosystem ChefZ introduces the first comprehensive cooking tool system specifically designed for robotic operation. Customized utensils enhance gripping precision and operational stability, while the gray, black, and orange color scheme across the tool bases forms a unified machine-vision recognition system. Together, these innovations enable the robot to maintain a task success rate of over **99%** during high-frequency operation. ### Standardization and Efficiency Through the deep integration of AI and motion control technologies, complex cooking processes are translated into standardized action sequences. ChefZ can reliably prepare more than **1,500 recipes** in real-world environments, delivering meals within **6–10 minutes per cooking cycle** while supporting stable **24/7 operation**. ### Modular Deployment Built around a modular architecture, ChefZ uses functional units as its fundamental deployment modules, allowing flexible configuration according to spatial constraints and operational requirements. The system can scale seamlessly from home kitchens to large commercial environments, enabling rapid and adaptable deployment across multiple cities. ### A Real-World Demonstration of Embodied AI As one of the first large-scale real-world deployments of embodied AI, ChefZ serves as a practical demonstration of how embodied intelligence can move beyond research environments into everyday applications. Its successful implementation validates a pathway for broader adoption across industries such as elderly care, retail automation, and service guidance, supporting the advancement of embodied AI toward wider societal impact and real-world value.

Led the design and development process over 8–12 months, overseeing the complete product lifecycle from concept creation through EVT, DVT, PVT, and mass production, ensuring successful product realization.

**ChefZ has been commercially deployed in 2 countries and 3 cities worldwide, receiving positive feedback from users across diverse cultural backgrounds. This milestone demonstrates the transition of embodied AI from laboratory research to real-world consumer applications, while driving the food service industry toward greater intelligence, standardization, and operational efficiency.** **More importantly, as one of the first large-scale real-world deployments of embodied AI, ChefZ serves as a practical proof of concept for broader applications in elderly care, retail automation, service guidance, and other sectors. By validating the scalability and feasibility of embodied intelligence in complex real-world environments, it provides a pathway for wider social adoption. Through demonstrative deployment and replicable implementation, ChefZ not only supports the sustainable development of the food service industry but also contributes to a safer, more efficient, and more intelligent way of living.**