Robotic Chef Cooks Up Dinner

The ultimate kitchen gadget isn’t a Ginsu knife, it’s a robot.
Moley Robotics, headquartered in the U.K., working in partnership with London-based Shadow Robot and Masterchef Tim Anderson, have developed a smartphone-controlled robotic chef that can whip up gourmet dishes.

 The robot, part of a system called the Automated Kitchen, consists of a pair of mechanical arms suspended over a work surface, oven and sink. Its movements were modeled on those of Anderson’s, which were recorded with a motion capture camera and uploaded to the robot’s central computer. Algorithms that control the movements were written by researchers at Stanford University.

During a demonstration, the robot switched on the stove, scraped butter into a pan, prepared and measured ingredients for a crab bisque in just under 30 minutes.
The prototype robotic chef was on display at a robotics show in Hanover Messe. The developers hope to have a commercial version for sale in 2017.