There's a new robot in town and it wants to cook a Michelin-chef meal for you. The robot arms by Moley Robotics are just part of an entire kitchen system that is designed to create professional-grade meals. The arms are massive but the hands are nimble and they choreograph the movements of 2011 MasterChef winner Tim Anderson, The Guardian reported.
Using motion-capture technology fed to the robot, it is able to whip up meals and deftly pick up ingredients without any problems. The sample dish, crab bisque, looks really appetizing! The robot hands even put the dishes in the sink to be washed after. Quite considerate, for a robot.
But the vision is far larger than just flawless Tim Anderson-meals made by robot arms. For Mark Oleynik, its creator, in the future celebrity chefs can use the robot arms as a platform for extending their own brand and sell recipes to robot owners. Assuming that ingredients are no problem, this can mean getting the same professional quality of food at every click.
Oh, did we forget that you use the robot with an app? You can control the robot remotely and basically tell it to make a meal ahead of you getting home. Moley adds that an integrated fridge and storage system will be made available for consumer versions, International Business Times reported.
The robot just needs to have the ingredients laid out in a prearranged order and the results should be perfect. No bottles of olive oil knocked down but maybe a spill here and there is acceptable. Future versions will hopefully have motion capture cameras to allow amateur chefs to create and share their dishes to others online.
The Moley robot is expected to hit consumer markets by 2017. It will have a digital library of over 2,000 dishes, Gizmag reported. If enough partners like celebrity chefs get in on the idea, the Moley robot arms could be the "iTunes for food" of the future.
