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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 Thursday April 16 2015, @01:15AM
Coding and gaming are opposites, right? One is work, the other is play, right? Like apples and oranges, right? No?!
Well now, if "coders" really do put as little thought into their work as it takes to play games, that would certainly explain why software is of such low quality these days.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:27PM
I'm no fan of WoW myself, but if you think games like WoW (or LoL, or EVE, or DotA) don't take a lot of thought, you are sorely mistaken. The players of those games put in more effort than, say, most government and managerial workers.
Do programmers remember every quirk and API detail of every piece of software and hardware they use? Good DotA players know every single statistic and interaction between those statistics of every character and item in their game. If programmers really put "as little thought" into their work as those gamers, software quality would shoot through the stratosphere.
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:39PM
That is true, and it is why I think gamification on some level could work to make the world a better place. For example, if you had to learn Chinese to complete your WoW quest, there'd probably be tens of millions more fluent, non-Chinese, speakers of Chinese pretty quickly. You could do the same for other subjects, of course, and shortly you'd have much, much better educated young for far less than the current university- and student loan system affords.
Washington DC delenda est.