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The world's first robotic kitchen prepares crab bisque for breakfast:
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited along to a warehouse in north London to see what is being billed as "the world's first automated kitchen." The system, made by Moley Robotics in the UK, can only make crab bisque right now—and it requires that all of the ingredients and utensils are pre-positioned perfectly. The goal, though, is to have a consumer-ready version within two years, priced at around £10,000 ($14,600). The company envisions an "iTunes style library of recipes" that you can download and have your robot chef prepare.
In its current form, the Moley Robotic Kitchen is essentially two very expensive robotic arms, with two even dearer fully articulated biomimetic humanoid hands made by the Shadow Robot Company on the ends. In front of the robot is a kitchen—a sink, a stovetop, an oven, and a range of utensils, including the aforementioned blender. The ingredients are placed in bowls and cups on the worktop. Once everything is set up, an engineer simply presses "start" on the controlling PC, the robot arms whirl around for 30 minutes, and voilà: crab bisque.
Simply stunning. Fresh from the arms of your android girlfriend, you awake from a coding/WoW binge to a delicately prepared breakfast of crab bisque. Geek nirvana, here we come!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @10:22PM
What are you talking about?
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday April 15 2015, @10:35PM
People becoming more divisive and hostile toward each other.
Machines being designed to accommodate every social need.
Eventually no one will need to interact with anyone else that they choose not to.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday April 15 2015, @10:42PM
Eventually no one will need to interact with anyone else that they choose not to.
That's an odd thing to say considering the last decade has been all about social media.
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(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday April 15 2015, @10:54PM
The "they choose not to" part is the significant part of that. Consider all social media, now consider all the subcategories of social media you choose not to participate in. Now consider all those subcategories that would be openly hostile toward you were there no laws preventing such things from happening.
The frequency people are talking may be increasing, but it's who they're talking more with, and about what that is significant. The groups forming matter, and if you think organizations are interested in that only for want of "terrorism", I have a bridge to sell you.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Thursday April 16 2015, @10:48AM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 15 2015, @10:58PM
This should scare the shit out of IRS (...and death).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Wednesday April 15 2015, @11:17PM
In the distant future, enough men would take a realistic, unageing, sex-at-any-time yet faithful gyndroid over a human female that it would disrupt society. Just think of the socially-hopeless fedora-wearers who would gladly buy a gyndroid. They're your early-adopters. Then you get the middle-aged men who are in undersexed marriages, who will sell these machines to their wives as domestic help as well as a way to keep his nagging needs in check. Human wives would rather have husbands 'cheat' with a machine than a real-life woman, if they even see it as cheating at all.
The situation with women could be similar if the AI meets their emotional needs rather than purely sexual ones. These androids could have extra equipment to stimulate the clitoris while providing a thrusting motion, replacing men via a superior experience. Even artificial sweat and pheromones could be used, or perhaps even an oxytocin analog.
Could we even see a society where human-on-human action is rare and human-droid action is the norm? Is this the first step towards being assimilated into the Borg?
I'm not sure if the correct spelling should be Gyndroids or Gynedroids. Any Greek scholars here?
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2015, @11:32PM
> Any Greek scholars here?
The "Greek" scholars are all into androids. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
(Score: 3, Funny) by sigma on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:54AM
The "Greek" scholars are all into androids.
That's only because the iPhone Maps-using Greeks all ended up in Atlantis instead of Athens. RIP guys.
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Wednesday April 15 2015, @11:34PM
This machine is vaporware, so you've got nothing to worry about - at least from that end of things. Making a robot that goes through a set of programmed motions: that's easy. But it's basically useless for anything outside of an assembly line. The hard part is making a robot that adjusts to an unpredictable environment.
People used to worry about getting replaced by robots - but the thing is, all the jobs that can easily be automated have been automated a long time ago, and there's still plenty of jobs left. Automating those jobs is turning out to be much, much harder. I'm not even talking about "skilled" work, but stupid shit like washing dishes, cleaning toilets, or picking fruit.