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: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:08AM
No, this is how it begins! With robot food preparation, we can break the grip that the fast food industry has on us. Save a bunch of money, and eat healthier. I don't call being dependent upon fast food a social good, or giving orders to a poor slob stuck in a minimum wage burger flipping job the social interaction that society needs to survive.
Super Size that, McDevils!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2015, @12:23AM
1. $15 minimum wage movement succeeds [soylentnews.org]
2. Robots drop in price while increasing functionality
3. Mass layoffs
4. 3D printing get gud
5. More layoffs
6. Agitated underclass
X. ???
69. Utopia
∞. Euphoria