• The Group enters into an unique multi-stage settlement with the Beijing College Meals Uncooked Materials Joint Procurement Centre in China.
• The events goal to roll out a community of 5,400 meals manufacturing robots, reaching an estimated cumulative income potential within the low single-digit billion euro vary over the subsequent years.
• The longer term community of meals manufacturing robots can be outfitted to supply almost 4 billion recent meals yearly throughout 92 Beijing establishments.
Hamburg / Peking, 12.06.2024 – Circus SE (Xetra: CA1), a number one AI robotics firm specialising in autonomous kitchen programs, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Beijing College Meals Uncooked Materials Joint Procurement Centre. This partnership goals to construct and scale an autonomous meals provide community utilizing Circus Autonomy One (CA-1), a totally automated meals manufacturing robotic able to ingredient dishing out, cooking, cleansing, and packaging with out human intervention. CA-1 minimises manufacturing bills and meals wastage whereas upholding distinctive culinary and hygiene requirements, all inside a compact 20 sq. metres and with out necessitating human involvement. The Circus Group is creating a worldwide community of those robots to offer balanced, cost-effective diet worldwide.
The Beijing College Meals Uncooked Materials Joint Procurement Centre, established in 2001, is a centralised platform for the procurement of uncooked supplies for college canteens, guided by the Ministry of Training and trade committees. Its goal is to ensure meals high quality and security, thereby enhancing the standard of life for lecturers and college students. The centre serves over 90 universities and academic establishments in Beijing, offering thousands and thousands of meals every day inside a restricted timeframe.
To make sure the supply and fixed accessibility of high-quality meals for each pupil, the events goal to determine an autonomous meals provide system, run by CA-1 meals manufacturing robots, enabling the on-demand manufacturing of over ten million meals every day throughout Beijing’s instructional establishments.
The collaboration between Circus and the Procurement Centre shall be carried out in a number of phases ranging from the setup of joint take a look at operations at first universities to organize for the broader market launch of CA-1 meals manufacturing robots. From the beginning of this preliminary section, Circus will obtain unique market entry.
The partnership goals to develop right into a multi-staged integration of Circus’ robotics know-how throughout 92 Beijing instructional establishments with a complete distribution of 5,400 CA-1 meals manufacturing robots, reaching an estimated cumulative income potential within the low single-digit billion euro vary over the subsequent years. The deliberate community of robots can be able to producing as much as 4 billion meals yearly.
In an extra outlined nationwide development section, the Procurement Centre shall additional assist the Group in a nationwide rollout of the CA-1 meals manufacturing robotic, aimed toward serving 4,000 instructional establishments with a complete of 60 million college students.
Nikolas Bullwinkel, CEO and Founding father of Circus Group, acknowledged, “The signing of this MoU represents a big milestone for Circus and the way forward for meals service autonomy globally. We’re honoured concerning the alternative to serve Beijing’s college students throughout instructional establishments and colleges with our meals service know-how and supply a spread of balanced meals to thousands and thousands of shiny minds whereas enhancing meals security and effectivity in college canteens with the implementation of this partnership. This settlement marks our entry into the Chinese language market and underscores the immense potential of our know-how to remodel meals service all over the world.”
Liu Zhigang, Director of the Beijing College Meals Uncooked Materials Joint Procurement Centre, added, “The partnership with the Circus Group represents a big step ahead within the growth of an automatic and extremely environment friendly meals provide system. Their robotics know-how will present our establishments with entry to reasonably priced, high-quality meals on-demand, enhancing the standard of life for each college students and lecturers at our amenities.
The MoU signed in the present day in Beijing outlines the fundamental phrases of future cooperation between the 2 events. The MoU just isn’t legally binding and serves to outline the important thing factors of the long run contractual settlement till the detailed and legally binding contracts are drawn up.
About Circus Group: The Circus Group (XETRA: CA1) is the main AI robotics firm, specialising within the translation of the advantageous artwork of cooking into full autonomy. On its mission to gasoline humanity, Circus supplies international entry to balanced diet, for everybody, anytime. The corporate developed the world’s first commercially viable meals manufacturing robotic, Circus Autonomy One. Circus employs abilities in AI, robotics engineering and meals service throughout 4 areas and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.