"Robot Kitchen" that will make the best first-class automatic chef cooking dishes appears

Based in LondonMoley RoboticsHowever, the world's first automatic cooking kitchen "Robot kitchen"Was developed. At the moment, although the robot kitchen can only be cooked "crab's bisque", Ars Technica has released the ultimate kitchen figure that you can cook gem cakes like automatic chefs cooked automatically It is.

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Ars Technica 's writer is visiting Moley Robotics' laboratory in London as "the first automatic cooking kitchen in the world" exists.


This is an automatic cooking kitchen. Two robot arms extend from the kitchen wall, and this arm cooks. In addition to the robot arm, the robot kitchen is equipped with a sink, range oven and other cooking utensils.


A state of the robot arm being cooked. Having very elaborate mechanical hands, we treat spatula and spat to dexterity with the same five fingers as human fingers.


It seems to forget that it is a robot in its form with a pot and a spatula. In cooking, simply place the material and cooking utensil in place and press start button OK. After that, the computer controls the robot arm and cooks arecole for about 30 minutes and the crab's bisque is completed.


The bisque of the finished crab is kore. A lighter who actually tasted commented that it was "really tasty," and engineers at Moley Robotics say "I can make a tastier bisque than I can."


The two arms of the robot kitchen are very expensive, and elaborate motions that imitate the structure of human hands are possible. Incidentally, the arm portionShadow Robot CompanyIt is said that they are using what they are manufacturing.

Moley Robotics plans to start sales of robot kitchen to the general market within 2 years, and selling price is assumed to be 10,000 pounds (about 1.8 million yen). Furthermore, I also reveal the future vision that "By creating a recipe library like iTunes, customers will be able to download favorite recipes and let them cook in the robot kitchen".

Actually viewing the cooking scenery with the robot kitchen in the movie is as follows.


Robot kitchen which carefully stirs soup with spatula.



Next, with the right hand on the owner of the pot ... ....


Move the handle to the left side.


Reaching for a mixer on the wall ......


Stir the soup in the pot. The left hand seized the hand so that the pan does not move, the series of actions is exactly like a human being.


Next, prepare a dish.


Take off your walls gently ......


I will put the soup in the pan occasionally.


And when using soup to put the soup in the vessel, putting the head on the edge of the pan once so that the soup will not spill on the table, it seems doubtful whether it is really a robot in the detail of the movement.


Put the soup in the vessel ......


Completed with toppings. Behind too vivid.


What kind of mechanism this robot kitchen is cooking means is that, in short, the cooking program "MasterChef"It's just imitating the behavior of Tim Anderson who became the champion in 2011 exactly.

Moley Robotics installed multiple motion capture cameras in the kitchen to capture the movements of Mr. Anderson cooking the crab's bisque. And by actually capturing the crab's bisque at 100 speeds per second, we accurately record the cooking movement from every angle. Cooking is done 5 times, all of which are recorded.

After recording Mr. Anderson's movements, by choosing the most wasteful movement among each of the 5 cooks and inputting the data to the database of the robot kitchen, the cooking operation with less waste It is reproducing. In other words, the robot kitchen only copies the behavior of the first-rate chef exactly and has a major disadvantage that once the cooking utensils and materials are misaligned from the predetermined position during cooking, the dish will not be completed at once .

Still, Ars Technica's writer who observed the robot kitchen cooking the crab's bisque from the material thoroughly commented that the state of cooking was amazing. Also, since it merely imitates the behavior of human beings, cooking will not be completed even with a small change (the position of the cooking utensils is different). Conversely speaking, once the materials and equipment are accurately arranged, anytime Because it is easy to reproduce the taste of top chefs, this is a place I can not miss.

As an example of advancement of technology to the cooking industry by technology advance, IBM's artificial intelligence "Watson" byCookbook of original ideasIt is also cited the release of.