Robot chef that can cook any of 2,000 meals at tap of a button to go on sale in 2017

[Bosonic]

Robot chef that can cook any of 2,000 meals at tap of a button to go on sale in 2017

Stirring, adjusting the temperature, pouring and adding ingredients are all basic skills for a chef but they’re slightly harder to achieve for a robot.

However, that’s not the case for this pair of robotic hands, which could be set to revolutionise cooking and kitchen operations.

At present it’s able to knock up a crab bisque, which it creates by replicating the exact movements of a professional chef.

Creator Moley Robotics says that when the commercial version launches in 2017 users will be able to select one of 2,000 dishes from their phone and the robotic hands in the automated kitchen will make it.

More: http://factor-tech.com/robotics/17437-robot-chef-that-can-cook-any-of-2000-meals-at-tap-of-a-button-to-go-on-sale-in-2017/

[hollysmom]

1. weren't these people just on TV last week?

the people who were deciding if they were going to invest said - 1) too expensive, 2) order out dinner. not worth the investment

[Bosonic]

3. Don't know if it was on TV, but all new tech is initially expensive

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I would prefer to have it done Molly Weasely's way.

[FuzzyRabbit]

4. Where are my flying car and robot maid?

[yeoman6987]

5. I've been waiting for those for a long time

It will be interesting to see technology in 2025. I imagine we will be farther then we are today. Can't wait to see it. I find it exciting.

[Cleita]

7. Yes, the robot maid would be great. eom.

[Cleita]

6. Does it know how to judge the quality and freshness of the ingredients?

That would be something.

[Thor_MN]

8. I'll settle for one of these

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meld/meld-a-perfect-meal-every-time

Give me temperature control of my range, like my Sous Vide heater does, and I will be happy to do the stirring and adding myself.

[eridani]

9. One more step on the way to the iEverything

Reich: The 'iEverything' and the Redistributional Imperative
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/17/ieverything-and-redistributional-imperative


It’s now possible to sell a new product to hundreds of millions of people without needing many, if any, workers to produce or distribute it. At its prime in 1988, Kodak, the iconic American photography company, had 145,000 employees. In 2012, Kodak filed for bankruptcy. The same year Kodak went under, Instagram, the world’s newest photo company, had 13 employees serving 30 million customers.

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Where will this end?

Imagine a small box – let’s call it an “iEverything” – capable of producing everything you could possibly desire, a modern day Aladdin’s lamp. You simply tell it what you want, and – presto – the object of your desire arrives at your feet. The iEverything also does whatever you want. It gives you a massage, fetches you your slippers, does your laundry and folds and irons it.

The iEverything will be the best machine ever invented.

The only problem is no one will be able to buy it. That’s because no one will have any means of earning money, since the iEverything will do it all. This is obviously fanciful, but when more and more can be done by fewer and fewer people, the profits go to an ever-smaller circle of executives and owner-investors.

[Stonepounder]

14. +1

[Half-Century Man]

10. Make something useful please, Like an automated snow removal robot for home use.

Or an urban pot hole filling robot.

Dining is a journey/destination kinda thing. The journey of food preparation is, in itself, as rewarding as consuming the results. Cooking feeds your creativity and ability to multitask as assuredly as eating feeds your body. Even if you are not the cook; the fact that someone cared enough to spend time to cook for you is proof of your worth (if even for that single moment alone).
If this were not true, then supermarkets would have nothing but hot pockets and appliance store would only carry microwaves.

When ever they perfect this....machine, perhaps the engineers could build a robot that will do jumping jacks for us so we can get exercise.

[Vestigial_Sister]

11. Will it have...

tats, wear a wife-beater, and have a Lucky Strike dangling from a servo?

[jmowreader]

12. There's already an app for this

It's called Seamless. You can use it to order any dish you want...but it comes from a restaurant, not a robot.

[cynzke]

13. ANOTHER GADGET!

To bring on board that Mega Yacht in that poster making the net rounds.

[Bosonic]

15. Robots Can Mix You a Drink. But Will They Listen to Your Problems?

Robots Can Mix You a Drink. But Will They Listen to Your Problems?

Robots aren’t about to elbow bartenders out of a job.

But versions of them could start showing up at your favorite watering holes. Indeed, some are already out there.

The Makr Shakr is the creation of an Italian company and consists of robotic arms that mix cocktails, and then place them on a conveyor belt to be carried across the bar to the waiting customer or a server. The first two installations are on Royal Caribbean cruise ships, where they’re the centerpieces of “Bionic Bars.”

The goal isn’t to do away with bartenders, who are still needed to tend the machines and, when necessary, deliver the drinks. Carlo Ratti, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and cofounder of Makr Shakr, says the project began when he was asked to design a machine that would allow people to interact with robots in an unexpected setting. “It started as something to shock people in a tangible way,” he says, to show them “what the third industrial revolution is all about.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/21/robots-can-mix-you-a-drink-but-will-they-listen-to-your-problems/