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Geek Nirvana Approaches: Robots to Cook You Breakfast

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday April 15 2015, @10:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the too-lazy-to-take-care-of-ourselves dept.
We recently covered AI creating recipes, now we can have robots make those recipes for us also.

Phoenix666 writes:

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!

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday April 15 2015, @11:02PM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Wednesday April 15 2015, @11:02PM (#171230)

    My breakfast is an omelet, egg mcmuffin type thing, or a breakfast burrito. All take 8 minutes (takes that long to cook my bacon the way I like it).

    Now a robot that did the dishes, that would be wonderful. When I was married my wife got home about 7 PM to a dinner cooked by me. We ate, and she cleaned up. She enjoyed cleaning, I was the better cook, it worked for both of us.

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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday April 15 2015, @11:26PM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 15 2015, @11:26PM (#171235)

    Now a robot that did the dishes, that would be wonderful.

    This is precisely why fast-food automation is nowhere near likely to happen any time soon.

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  • (Score: 2) by sigma on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:58AM

    by sigma (1225) on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:58AM (#171270)

    Now a robot that did the dishes, that would be wonderful.

    I have some good news for you...

    https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=dishwasher [google.com]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @01:05AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @01:05AM (#171278)

      d..d..dishwasher-safe!