Is this one job the robots can't take?
The company, founded back in 2015, was working on a mobile pizza-making machine for years, but struggled to turn it into a reality. As a result, the company pivoted to working on sustainable packaging back in 2020., that new direction hasn't worked out for them, either.
It's a shocking turn given the sheer amount of money investors — including $375 million from multinational giant SoftBank, which is like the infamous WeWork — have poured into the startup. And in an even broader sense, it once again shows that even as AI makes incredible strides in the market, practical robotics ventures remain enduring difficult.As it turns out, it's not easy building a mechanical pizzaiolo. The startup has been stumbling for years., the company struggled to physically keep melting cheese from sliding off pies that were being baked in its moving trucks.
In early 2020, the company laid off over half of its workers before being bought by the appropriately named compostable packaging company Pivot Packaging. At the time, Zume CEO Alex Garden blamed the cuts on the pandemic and a number of deals that fell through,
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