This week’s podcast is with Barney Wragg, Founder and CEO of Karakuri, which makes the Semblr all-in-one canteen robot.

The Semblr holds 17 different temperature-controlled ingredients that can be dispensed down to the gram. With this level of control, Semblr can make 2,700 different meal combinations.

Karakuri recently installed its first Semblr for public use at Ocado’s (which invested in Karakuri) headquarters in England. I took that opportunity to catch up with Wragg to talk about:

• The specific labor issues Semblr solves

• How Semblr fights food waste

• How much it will cost to get your own Semblr ‘bot