Culinary & Foodservice Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Miso Robotics Acquires Zume Pizza Tech, Integrates Zignyl Software

Miso Robotics has acquired Zume Pizza's robotics technology and patents while integrating Zignyl's revenue management software into its AI dashboard.

The numbers

300+ patents Miso acquired Zume's robotics technology and patents.
$375M Zume, the acquired robotics pioneer, raised this amount.
28 granted and pending patents Patents protecting Miso's first-mover position in robotics.
99.9% Menu item classification accuracy of NVIDIA-powered AI vision.
100+ baskets per hour Flippy Fry Station throughput capacity.

Sources

invest.misorobotics.com

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