This scares me slightly less than robots making hamburgers, given the high temperatures of pizza ovens so maybe there's less chance of the product making people sick, but here's yet ANOTHER article wherein some genius tech bro designs food processing equipment and the fawning journalist makes NO mention of whether these machines were designed with easy cleaning in mind.

Just ONCE I want to see a deep dive into that.

Because there's a huge potential for sickness and even death if a craven lazy owner doesn't take sanitation seriously when deploying their motorized petri dishes.

wildcardjack: How It's Made showed one model from almost 20 years ago. It's amazing how a BS artist can negate history and reality because they have an investment pitch.

My guess, the machine you saw was designed by engineers who've spent their whole careers working for companies that make food processing machinery (as opposed to some kid whose dad is a venture capitalist), and it's in a food production facility with a dedicated sanitation crew and where QC technicians swab the equipment to make sure the bacteria counts aren't dangerously high.

I yell until I'm hoarse every time I notice a "tech bros revolutionizing food production" Fark thread because of the point you brought up. Making machines that can produce food that won't poison you, and running food production facilities where shiat gets cleaned as it should are things that humanity's known how to do for decades. Blue Bell ice cream notwithstanding.