FRANCE: Remember when Jane Jetson sat down, exhausted, after cooking dinner by pushing a few buttons and letting the family’s collection of robots do all the work? That might not be science fiction if London-based Moley Robotics has any say.
The company has recently launched their prototype robo-chef designed to be installed in a residential home. The robotic chef learns its movements by capturing the movements of a human in the kitchen as they prepare a meal, and then translates those movements into commands that operate its human-like robotic hands mounted on the ends of armatures dangling from the ceiling.
Moley is demonstrating the robo-chef at the annual German industrial technology trade fair known as Hannover Messe, where the machine makes a crab bisque for onlookers. It’s the “ultimate sous-chef” according to 2011 BBC Masterchef competition champion Tim Anderson, who’s hard at work training the chef. Anderson remarked that telling the robo-chef to do something will see it attempt the task, whether that means a simple preparation task or the completion of an entire dish from start to finish – and that it will do it the same every time as well.
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