Chinese engineers are zeroing in on one of the loftiest goals in applied robotics: fully automated cooking.
At the buzzy World Robotics Conference in Beijing, the company Oak Deer Robotics revealed three kitchen aids designed to advance the state of kitchen automation, China Daily shared. A mix of standalone appliances and humanoid robots, the new products include a “multimodal cooking AI model” called CookingMuse, a new AI-integrated cooking robot apparatus, as well as a fully-automated food cart with a little humanoid chef called RobotCook.
According to CD, the basic cooking robot went through two live cooking demonstrations, stir-frying tofu as well as pork and green peppers. Per the company’s website, its robots are meant to prepare “Chinese stir-fry dishes,” which it does with a robotic wok capable of hitting 300 degrees Celsius, an ingredient dispensing system, as well as an AI “fully self-developed stir-frying algorithm.”
The partially state-owned Oak Deer is said to have cooking robots in over 300 cities and 4,000 stores across the country, China Entrepreneur Magazine reported last year.
