{"id":24352,"date":"2026-06-22T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?guid=f5ab2f443a7febac6b7b2cfa4c0ecfa5"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:41:00","slug":"chef-robotics-hires-nicolas-de-keijser-as-vp-of-sales-to-accelerate-enterprise-adoption-of-physical-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stocks-future.com\/?p=24352","title":{"rendered":"Chef Robotics Hires Nicolas De Keijser as VP of Sales to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of Physical AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chef Robotics<\/a>, a leader in physical AI for the food industry, today announced the appointment of Nicolas De Keijser as Vice President of Sales.<\/p><\/a><\/a>

\nChef provides AI-powered food assembly robots to food manufacturers. Since onboarding its first customer, Amy\u2019s Kitchen, in 2022, the company has expanded to serve 15 mid-market and enterprise food manufacturers across North America and Europe. Earlier this year, Chef announced that its robots had completed 100 million servings<\/a> in production\u2014more than all other food robotics companies combined\u2014forming the world\u2019s largest real-world dataset of deformable material training data.<\/p>

\nAs Vice President of Sales, De Keijser will lead Chef\u2019s commercial organization and help expand the company\u2019s presence among enterprise food manufacturers.<\/p>

\nDe Keijser joins Chef after more than six years at Boston Dynamics, where he served as Senior Director of Sales and built and led the commercial team that brought the company\u2019s warehouse automation products to customers worldwide. Prior to Boston Dynamics, he spent 12 years at ABB in a variety of sales, business development, and commercial leadership roles. During that time, he developed the company\u2019s North American business in robotic assembly and test applications and built engineering and sales support teams in Silicon Valley and Michigan.<\/p>

\n\u201cNicolas brings deep experience scaling robotics businesses and working with enterprise customers around the world,\u201d said Rajat Bhageria, Founder and CEO of Chef Robotics. \u201cAs demand for physical AI continues to grow across the food industry, his leadership will help us reach more customers and accelerate the adoption of robotics in food production.\u201d<\/p>

\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more excited to join Chef,\" said De Keijser. \u201cI\u2019ve followed the company\u2019s progress for several years now and believe it has reached an important stage of growth. Chef has demonstrated that physical AI can deliver measurable value in production environments, and I look forward to helping more food manufacturers deploy its technology at scale.\u201d<\/p>

\nAbout Chef Robotics<\/b><\/p>

\nChef is the first company to have commercialized a scalable physical AI solution for the food industry. With over 119 million servings made in production, Chef leverages ChefOS, an AI platform for food manipulation, to offer a Robotics-as-a-Service solution that helps industry-leading food companies increase production volume and meet demand. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Chef aims to empower humans to do what humans do best by accelerating the advent of intelligent machines. Visit https:\/\/chefrobotics.ai<\/a> to learn more.<\/p> Contacts<\/b>

\nMedia contact<\/b>Charlotte Kosche\ncharlotte@chefrobotics.ai<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Chef Robotics, a leader in physical AI for the food industry, today announced the appointment of Nicolas De Keijser as Vice President of Sales.
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