The crispness of a single chip in a bag of Frito-Lay ’ s , produced by PepsiCo , is just one example of how Machine Learning ( ML ) is revolutionising the production process . The food and beverage giant quickly realised that ML and Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) is now a business need , rather than a technology investment which used to give a competitive edge . Students at the University of the Pacific are just some of the customers who benefit from these advances with five robots , known as snackbot ’ s , delivering some of PepsiCo ’ s Hello Goodness products from SunChips to Baked Lays to more than 50 spots across the campus . The Snackbot represents the solution to the needs of busy students and their preferences identified through PepsiCo ’ s research . The company is also harnessing technology to work alongside a vision system to predict the weight of potatoes and is currently ML to determine the ‘ peel percentage ’. Speech recognition , augmented data analytics and big data also being used by PepsiCo within their factories .

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