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Date: 2026-10-21
Type: ARTICLE
Topics: Commercial Deployments, Food Robotics, Robot Operations
Deck: Circus reports 30+ systems across 19 enterprise customers, with cumulative production exceeding 230,000 meals.
URL: https://korthosrobotics.com/research/circus-q3-2026-30-meal-production-systems-eight-countries
Referenced profiles: Circus SE (https://korthosrobotics.com/ecosystem/company/circus-se)

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Circus Group reports more than 30 autonomous meal-production systems deployed across 19 enterprise customers in eight countries in its third-quarter operating update. The fleet has produced more than 230,000 meals cumulatively, and the company is targeting more than 50 installed systems by the end of 2026.
The update follows roughly a year of commercial operation with early customers including REWE and Meta. Circus's CA-1 systems automate meal preparation at customer sites, while its supporting equipment and software cover ingredient handling and daily operation. The company says almost all customers now use Circus Pods, which it claims can reduce daily handling work by up to 80%.
Circus reports uptime above 93% at mature sites during the quarter, compared with approximately 70% at the start of the year. It also reports operating costs nearly 25% lower than in the preceding quarter and a threefold increase in deployment pace. These company-reported improvements concern the operation and rollout of its installed fleet.
Hardware expansion is proceeding alongside the CA-1 rollout. CA-A entered volume production three months after the acquisition behind that product closed, while Circus completed a functional CA-M prototype and began producing its first modules. The company also installed its first CA-1 outside Europe in Abu Dhabi during the quarter.
Circus maintained full-year 2026 revenue guidance of €5.2 million. Its year-end fleet target would add more than 20 systems to the reported installed base as the company expands customer support, ingredient logistics and commissioning across additional sites.