Going from -1 to 0 in Physical AI with Rajat Bhageria, founder at Chef Robotics

​For this Choose Good Quests session, we’re hosting Rajat Bhageria, founder of Chef Robotics, for a fireside chat on what it actually takes to go from -1 to 0 in Physical AI.

​Chef Robotics is one of the breakout companies turning Physical AI from a buzzword into reality. While many robotics companies are still stuck in demo mode, Chef’s robots are already on factory floors — deployed in real food production facilities, handling nearly 2,000 ingredients, and helping produce more than 100 million food servings for customers like CookUnity, F&S Fresh, Avatar Foods, Sunbasket, Amy’s Kitchen & Project Open Hand. The company recently raised a $43M Series A across equity and debt to scale its deployments.

​We’ll dig into Rajat’s journey building Chef Robotics: the early decisions that mattered, the hard lessons from deploying robots in the real world, what most founders misunderstand about robotics, and where he sees the biggest opportunities emerging across Physical AI, automation, and autonomy.

​This will be an intimate evening with a highly curated group of roboticists, researchers, and engineers who are either starting companies or looking to join the next generation of Physical AI startups. Expect a practical, honest conversation, not generic startup advice.

​About the Host:
Savant is a community of technologists embarking on good quests, ideas that are hard, consequential and civilizational-defining. We support founders navigate this brutal -1 to 0 phase with a rare concentration of exceptional peers, hardware lab & office space, office hours, access to our network and more — often before we ever write a check.

Together, let's move civilization forward!