This robot ‘chef’ can follow video instructions to make a very simple salad
The robot even created its own salad recipe after learning from examples. University of Cambridge It may not win a restaurant any Michelin stars, but a research team’s new robotic ‘chef’ is still demonstrating some impressive leaps forward for culinary tech. As detailed in the journal IEEE Access, a group of engineers at the University of Cambridge’s Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory recently cooked up a robot capable of assembling a slate of salads after watching human demonstration videos. From there, the robot chef was even able to create its own, original salad based on its previous learning. “We wanted to see whether we could train a robot chef to learn in the same incremental way that humans can—by identifying the ingredients and how they go together in the dish,” the paper’s first author...