Lemnos: A Silicon Valley Incubator for Hardware
Unlike other incubators, Lemnos Labs nurtures hardware makers
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Many people would look at the assembly line in a McDonald’s kitchen and see ultra-efficiency. Not Helen Zelman. She thinks robots could knock out tastier burgers faster, and for less money. “Right now you’re limited by what a 16- or 18-year-old fry cook can do,” Zelman says. “Robots can perform more complex tasks. You could think about making Five Guys burgers at McDonald’s prices or even higher-quality burgers at Five Guys prices.” To make that magic possible, Zelman’s hardware incubator, Lemnos Labs, is funding Momentum Machines, which is developing a burger-making robot named Patty that can assemble a cooked burger and bag it in less than 30 seconds.