Are you tired of cooking? If so, Moley Robotic Kitchen will be a solution for you.
Moley Robotic Kitchen is the first home-use cooking robot used in the kitchen. It was developed by Moley Robotics, a robotics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom and was founded by Mark Oleynik in 2015 to create service robots for kitchen use.
The kitchen includes an oven, an electric stove, a dishwasher, a touchscreen unit, and two robotic arms which has sensors with can pick up and interact with most kitchen equipment.
How it works
It captures the entire work of a human chef with an integrated 3D camera and wired glove, then uploads it into a database. The chef’s actions are translated into digital movements using gesture recognition algorithms created in collaboration with Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University professors. In order to have a meal, the user chooses a recipe from the database by selecting from the touch screen or remotely via smartphones and then the Robotic Kitchen will cook the meal with the same taste as the human chef.
Benefits of Moley Robotic Kitchen
First, it can help people, especially people with a busy life and people without cooking skills, have healthy food and tasty food every day. Many people nowadays consume a lot of convenience food, such potato chips, and instant noodles, and this is a problem because the consumption of this type of food is a significant factor that causes obesity and other illnesses around the world. However, Moley Robotic Kitchen can change this. With the participation of nutritionists and health experts in creating the entire menus for the kitchen adapted to different dietary requirements, people can enjoy healthy food with fresh ingredients in their home every day. Also, the robotic kitchen has unlimited access to chefs and their recipes worldwide so it can cook any dish from anywhere in the world. For example, you can have tasty food from famous chefs, such as Tim Anderson, Thomas Keller, Alain Ducasse, and Gordan Ramsay or from the older generation in your family, such as your great-grandmother. They only need to teach it how to do it and then it can cook with the same taste.
Second, it can help to save the environment because with the ability to cook perfectly and accurately every time, the robot will help reduce the amount of food we waste while cooking. It is significant because food waste has been affecting our environment today.
Finally, people can make money through recipe sales through this robot. With the ability to cook any downloadable recipe on the internet, consumers and professional chefs could access, share and sell their own recipes via the “digital style library of recipes” database. This could be a launching pad for aspiring chefs who want to generate revenue through recipe sales globally.
Some Controversial Issues and Problems
It becomes a controversial topic that the development of this robot can hurt many restaurants. Since with this robot at home, people are more likely to have food at home instead of eating out at restaurants. Also, while many people think it’s amazing and convenient to have a device that could cook anything from the internet, others still concern about its safety.
Despite the advanced technology, this robot still has some problems that need to be solved. First, it is still not capable of dealing with tricky things like stopping mixing at the appropriate time to prevent splitting or over-beating. Also, robot chefs still don’t have the ability to interact with people like human chefs. Finally, the robot would not be cheap. It would cost about 15,000, so it’s only affordable for “rich house owners”.
Conclusion
Moley Robotic Kitchen was designed like a home kitchen and works by capturing the action of human and repeating exactly the actions of human hands to cook an identical meal. It can give many benefits to people, such as cooking healthy and tasty food for them, saving the environment, and helping them making money. However, this robot can hurt many restaurants and still need a lot of improvements in its performance and also need to be cheaper.
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