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Re: Robotic Achievement
As much as I love the potential of robotics, I am not at all sold on a robotic home chef. First of all, I like cooking and I'm not sure I want to outsource that. It also seems like picking one of the hardest challenges before much simpler tasks have been mastered. Cooking requires a wide range of skills and most of them would be very hard to learn by watching someone make a recipe once.
Last night I made Udon Beef Soup. I had to thin slice some ribeye steak and my steak was bone-in. Can the robot watch me once and know how to cut meat off the bone? Will it realize if there is a small piece of bone in the meat? Or will I have to wait until I crack a tooth to realize? Does the robot know that the weird slime in one of my green onions is not something I want to eat? Does it really know if food is done or does it just memorize the time and hope for the best?
A pair of arms also can't get all the ingredients from my pantry to the setup zone so I still have to do part of the job anyway. To really work on it's own I'd probably have to redo my entire kitchen. Pretty soon the robot kitchen would cost more than your house. This makes way more sense in limited applications such as a robot that makes perfect burgers for a restaurant than a do-everything robot for your home.
Now if there is one that can wash the dishes so I can cook without cleaning...I'm sold.
Originally posted by Adeptus
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Robot Chef: Saw some videos on this a few weeks ago. Very impressive. Would seriously consider buying it if the human reviews of the product match the demos' claims.
What is it? It's a pair of robotic arms you install in your kitchen above your stove. The Robot Chef comes with 2,000 pre-configured recipes it can cook from scratch, but you can add on nearly endless recipes, including your own. Imagine, coming home each day from work to a 5 star Michelin cooked meal, hot and ready to eat! Good bye fast food restaurants! And all for only for a price of 10,000 GBP. The high dexterity of the robotic hands have been a work in progress for the past 17 years, it's not just ready for hospital operating tables, but your kitchen as well!
At a glance I rate this 8/10. Why? Still needs integration to your smart fridge that auto-orders food from your grocery store delivered by drone just in time for the robot to begin cooking. Oh and the ability for 'something' to get the food out from the fridge and to the Robot arms above the stove automagically. Lastly, I question the safety of the whole system. IMHO it would require a fire safety mechanism in case the robot drops some oil and starts a fire. Yes, it's not as technically impressive as passing turing tests.. but hell, this could be a huge lifestyle improvement at a very affordable cost for most middle class humans.
Here's one sample video, for more just go to youtube and type "Robot Chef"
What is it? It's a pair of robotic arms you install in your kitchen above your stove. The Robot Chef comes with 2,000 pre-configured recipes it can cook from scratch, but you can add on nearly endless recipes, including your own. Imagine, coming home each day from work to a 5 star Michelin cooked meal, hot and ready to eat! Good bye fast food restaurants! And all for only for a price of 10,000 GBP. The high dexterity of the robotic hands have been a work in progress for the past 17 years, it's not just ready for hospital operating tables, but your kitchen as well!
At a glance I rate this 8/10. Why? Still needs integration to your smart fridge that auto-orders food from your grocery store delivered by drone just in time for the robot to begin cooking. Oh and the ability for 'something' to get the food out from the fridge and to the Robot arms above the stove automagically. Lastly, I question the safety of the whole system. IMHO it would require a fire safety mechanism in case the robot drops some oil and starts a fire. Yes, it's not as technically impressive as passing turing tests.. but hell, this could be a huge lifestyle improvement at a very affordable cost for most middle class humans.
Here's one sample video, for more just go to youtube and type "Robot Chef"
Last night I made Udon Beef Soup. I had to thin slice some ribeye steak and my steak was bone-in. Can the robot watch me once and know how to cut meat off the bone? Will it realize if there is a small piece of bone in the meat? Or will I have to wait until I crack a tooth to realize? Does the robot know that the weird slime in one of my green onions is not something I want to eat? Does it really know if food is done or does it just memorize the time and hope for the best?
A pair of arms also can't get all the ingredients from my pantry to the setup zone so I still have to do part of the job anyway. To really work on it's own I'd probably have to redo my entire kitchen. Pretty soon the robot kitchen would cost more than your house. This makes way more sense in limited applications such as a robot that makes perfect burgers for a restaurant than a do-everything robot for your home.
Now if there is one that can wash the dishes so I can cook without cleaning...I'm sold.
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