"Chippy" the tortilla-making robot may soon have new friends in the back of Chipotle restaurants.

"There are other opportunities [to use robots]," Chipotle CFO Jack Hartung said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). "Dishwashing is not a job our crews like to do either. It's hot and messy. Our crews say it would be great if I could spend less time —or no time at all — on these tasks."

Chipotle said recently it has linked up with Miso Robotics to bring Chippy — an autonomous robot programmed to make Chipotle's tortilla chips — into its restaurants.

The robot is currently being tested at the company's innovation center in Irvine, California, and will be integrated into a Chipotle restaurant in Southern California later this year.

"Our approach is to look at areas where it's a repetitive task, a task that our crew doesn't love doing, so we can automate that and really enhance the experience the crews have," Hartung said.

White Castle, the first major fast-food chain to work with Miso Robotics on a robot several years ago, announced in February it would bring "Flippy 2" to one-third of its restaurants nationwide to help make burgers and fries.

Other restaurant chains continue to explore their use of robots to tackle the labor shortage.

In 2021, Domino's Pizza struck a deal with self-driving delivery company Nuro to launch autonomous pizza delivery in parts of Houston.

Brian Sozzi is an editor-at-large and anchor at Yahoo Finance. Follow Sozzi on Twitter @BrianSozzi and on LinkedIn.

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