Spyce, a robotic kitchen that came on the scene in 2018, is reopening today in Boston.

The concept has been redesigned with off-premises in mind. “… We’ve reinvented the way we cook and how customers can truly personalize their meals. We also built a sustainable way to deliver our food to customers’ doorsteps. This is a new, improved experience that’s built around bringing healthy, personalized meals to our community,” says Michael Farid, CEO and Co-Founder​ of Spyce.

Background

MIT mechanical engineering graduates^[2] Michael Farid, Brady Knight, Luke Schlueter and Kale Rogers^[3] developed the kitchen using seven autonomous work stations to prepare bowl-based meals using healthy ingredients such as kale, beans and grains.^[4] The four graduates wanted to make healthy meals more affordable,^[5] so they built the robotic technology^[6] and initially served the food to students at an MIT dining hall.^[7] The group received the $10,000 “Eat It” Lemelson-MIT undergraduate prize in 2016^[8] as one of America’s top two collegiate inventors in food technology.^[9]

The four then teamed up with chef Daniel Boulud to create the new menu for their restaurant.^[10][11] Prices start at $7.50 for an entire meal in a bowl^[12] at their first real branch, which opened on May 3, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts.^[13] Referred to as the “Spyce Boys”,^[14] the four founders were inspired by their experiences as hungry student athletes on tight budgets. Spyce Kitchen automated cooking units also clean up after cooking and dirtying the cooking apparatus.^[15]