ROBOTS THAT WILL COOK FOR YOU
Photo by : Moley Robotics
If you have a problem with your own cooking , or wanted a chef in your own kitchen , that won ’ t be so much of a problem anymore with the world ’ s first ever robotic kitchen .
The robotic kitchen features four key integrated kitchen items of robotic arms , an oven , a hob and a touchscreen unit . It can be operated right at your fingertips via a smartphone or via the included touch screen ; all you need to do is pull up a recipe and wait for the robot to serve you the food .
It isn ’ t a machine that just cooks ; it has hands that can cook like a master chef . The hands get its articulation – its speed , its sensitivity , and its movement – by recording the cooking skills of Master Chef Tim Anderson , winner of the BBC Master Chef title , in a demonstration and putting the skills into its system . The hands then replicate , even the pauses in between and the OK gesture in the end , the master chef ’ s abilities into its kitchen . No wonder about that , since the nuclear industry and NASA uses the same kind of hands made by the Shadow Robot Company .
If you are concerned with being stabbed by the robot , no need to fret as the robots uses a food processor and limits itself to knives . The kitchen also comes with a protective screen as an additional layer of safety .
This technology , however , will not be available to consumers until the fourth quarter of 2017 . It will be supported by an iTunes-style downloadable library of recipes that the robot chef can cook at your own home which are about 2,000 recipes . Just prepare a good amount of $ 75,000 at its first launch .
The robot kitchen is the brainchild of U . K . -based Moley Robotics , which prototype premiered at an international robotics show Hanover Messe . The eureka moment for the idea was of Mark Oleynik in January of 2014 . The first patents were filed in the following month ; a prototype was built by Moley in September of the same year .
JULY 2016 Future Cities & Robotics
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