Perfect strips. Every time. No wrestling the jerky gun.
The Meat Bot lays down uniform strips, sticks, and shapes — for consistent drying and water activity, batch after batch. Built for small and mid-size processors, not million-dollar mega-plants.
- Patent-pending
- USDA-friendly
- 220V
- On wheels · 15-min setup
- 3–5 lb waste per run
▶ Watch the Meat Bot in action
Inconsistent strips are a food-safety problem — not just a looks problem.
Uneven thickness
A hand-powered jerky gun is only as steady as your tired hand. Strips come out thin, fat, and never the same.
Inconsistent water activity
Strips of different thickness dry at different rates — so water activity varies across the batch. That drives both shelf life and safety. Uniform strips dry uniformly.
No middle option
The only “upgrade” was a $200K–$1M industrial line built for Tyson — overkill you can’t justify or fit.
Meet the Meat Bot.
An automated deposition robot — built from stainless steel with a food-grade aluminum top plate — that takes your ground, seasoned meat and lays down uniform strips, sticks, or custom shapes, straight onto your trays. It rolls in next to your stuffer, runs your session, then rolls away for storage.
- ConsistentUniform thickness means even drying and consistent water activity, tray after tray.
- VersatileStrips, sticks, and custom shapes — swap the nozzle, change the product.
- Casing-freeNo beef collagen casing — no added allergens or unwanted ingredients.
Watch it on the floor.
Early footage of the Meat Bot in action — running on a real line in a USDA-inspected facility. Not a concept; it's making product today.
By hand vs. the Meat Bot.
Same recipe. Same dehydrator. The only variable is how the strips were formed — and how evenly they dry.
Industrial precision, without the industrial price.
The industry built for two extremes — mega-factories and hobbyists. We built the machine for everyone in between.
It fits your floor — and your stuffer.
The Meat Bot is custom-built to your facility and works with the equipment you already run.
On wheels
15-minute setup, 15-minute teardown. Roll it in next to your stuffer for a session, then roll it away for storage — no dedicated floor space.
Custom-built to your factory
We size and configure each Meat Bot to your floor plan and layout. Multiple sizes for small, medium, and large operations.
Syncs with your stuffer
The Meat Bot coordinates deposition with your stuffer’s output, so forming a full tray takes a fraction of the time. Works with Weston, LEM, Vemag, and more.
One machine. Many products.
5-strip
High-volume jerky strips with airflow gaps for even drying.
3-strip
Wider strips or smaller trays — same uniform results.
Meat sticks
Dedicated meat-stick nozzles for snack sticks.
Custom to spec
We design and build any nozzle you need. The patent covers any strip count.
Change formats with a nozzle swap — no new machine, no new line.
Standard fittings. Endless setups.
Every Meat Bot connects with sanitary 1.5″ Tri-Clamp fittings — the same standard your plant already uses. Add off-the-shelf extenders, elbows, and adapters to fit the robot to your line, your trays, and your space. Stainless steel nozzles come standard, with a lighter food-grade aluminum option.
It's why one machine works for small shops, seasonal producers, mobile butchers, large-game processors, and full production floors alike.
Three steps from mix to tray.
Load
Grind and season your meat your way, then load it into your stuffer. You bring the recipe; the Meat Bot brings the consistency.
Run
The robot moves while the multi-channel nozzle deposits uniform rows — coordinated with your stuffer’s output — straight onto your trays.
Dry
Move trays to your existing dehydrator or smokehouse. Even thickness means even drying and consistent water activity — every tray.
What it does — and what it doesn't.
✅ What it does
- Deposits ground, seasoned meat into uniform strips, sticks, or custom shapes
- Delivers consistent thickness for even drying and consistent water activity
- Works across proteins — chicken, beef, and more
- Syncs with your stuffer and works with Weston, LEM, Vemag and other equipment
- Custom-built to your floor plan, in multiple sizes
- Rolls in on wheels — 15-min setup, 15-min teardown
- Wastes almost nothing — 3–5 lb loss per run; easy to clean and sanitize
- Casing-free — no beef collagen, no added allergens
⛔ What it doesn’t (by design)
- Doesn’t grind, de-bone, or mix — pair it with your grinder/mixer
- Doesn’t cook, smoke, or dehydrate — that’s your existing equipment
- Doesn’t season or marinate — your recipe stays yours
- Doesn’t package, weigh, or seal
- Isn’t a whole-muscle slicer — it’s a ground-meat deposition system
- Isn’t a million-dollar industrial line — it’s built for small, medium & large batches
No casing. No collagen. No surprise allergens.
Snack-stick lines extrude into beef collagen casings — adding a beef-derived ingredient and allergens you didn’t choose. The Meat Bot deposits casing-free strips: just your meat, formed and dried.
Easy to run. Built to keep running.
Press start and walk away — the Meat Bot runs the job itself, recovers from hiccups, and lets you watch from anywhere.
Run it from any tablet or phone
A touch-friendly dashboard opens in any browser — nothing to install. Big, high-contrast controls built for busy or gloved hands on the floor.
Keeps running if WiFi drops
The machine runs its own program, not the tablet. A spotty network or a set-down tablet never interrupts a run.
Recovers itself
If a run stalls, it detects it and safely resets to a known-good state — with one-tap recovery in plain language, so fewer issues become service calls.
Watch it from anywhere
A secure cloud dashboard shows live status and health from your phone. Running more than one? See them all in a single fleet view.
Updates itself, safely
New features and fixes install automatically over the air and roll back on their own if anything isn't right — no service visit, no stranded machine.
Safe by design
An independent emergency-stop circuit cuts power to moving parts at the hardware level, and the machine never moves on its own — it waits for a deliberate start.
Why automate the forming step?
It’s the slowest, most inconsistent, most labor-hungry part of making jerky and sticks — and the one most likely to fail your spec.
Consistency you can measure
Uniform thickness means even drying and consistent water activity across every tray — the difference between a passing batch and a reworked one.
Labor is your bottleneck
Forming by hand ties up your most skilled people. The Meat Bot saves roughly 40 minutes of forming per 20 lb versus by hand — about 30 minutes versus a single-horn stuffer — freeing your team for flavoring, drying, and packing.
Almost no waste
Unlike water-wheel systems, the Meat Bot loses just 3–5 lb per run and cleans up fast — so it pays off on small, medium, and large batches alike.
Scale without a new building
Grow output without hiring more hands — or buying a $200K–$1M line and the floor space to match.
Estimate your ROI
Based on measured savings of ~40 minutes of forming labor per 20 lb versus forming by hand (≈30 minutes versus a single-horn stuffer).
Basis: ~40 min of forming labor saved per 20 lb vs. forming by hand.
Labor only — even drying, higher yield, and less rework are additional upside. Your numbers will vary.
This isn't a concept. It's making product daily.
The first Meat Bot has run daily production since April 2026 at a USDA-inspected processor (Est. P-47928).
Reserve at pre-order pricing.
Pre-order pricing is open now and won’t last. Lock your price and your build slot with a deposit. Every unit is custom-built to your floor plan.
- Limited pre-order pricing
- 12 months cloud software free
- 60″×40″ tray support, high-volume
- $10,000 deposit reserves your slot
- After pre-order tier closes
- 24 months cloud software free
- Same patent-protected core
- Standard list price
- Add a custom nozzle: from $5,000
- Medium model $25,000 — Q2 2027
Flat $10,000 deposit (wire or ACH).
Custom-built to your floor plan; ~5 months first units, ~3 months after.
Balance due Net 15 from delivery.
Software, updates, and support included.
Wire/ACH only on orders this size. Cloud subscription $99 / $149 / $199 per month per robot after the included free period. Optional service plans $1,500–$7,200/yr. See full pricing →
Born out of frustration. Built for perfection.
It started with chicken jerky and a jerky gun that couldn’t keep up. When our founder went looking for a machine sized for a growing business, he found only million-dollar industrial lines or hobbyist caulk-guns — nothing in between. So he built the machine the industry was missing.
The light spec.
The expo questions, answered.
Why do uniform strips matter beyond looks?+
Is it actually in production, or a prototype?+
How fast does it set up, and where does it live?+
Does it work with my equipment?+
What nozzles / formats are available?+
How much waste, and what batch sizes?+
Is it casing-free?+
What power does it need?+
Do I need to install an app, or have internet?+
What if it stalls or the network drops mid-run?+
How much is it, and how do I reserve one?+
Can I see it before I buy?+
Reserve your Meat Bot.
Lock pre-order pricing ($30,000) and your build slot with a $10,000 deposit — or book a live demo first. We’ll reach out within one business day.
- No payment on this formWe’ll email the agreement and wire/ACH instructions.
- Custom-built to your floor planTell us your layout, stuffer, and batch sizes.
- Real humans, fastBuilt and supported by the founders, in Texas.
Prefer to see it run first? Book a live demo call →
Seeing it at the expo? Get your questions answered.
Scan, reserve, or book a live demo before you leave the floor.