Moley Robotics
Moley Robotics is a robotics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was founded by Mark Oleynik in 2015 to create service robots for kitchen use.[1][2] It is best known for creating the first robot kitchen called The Moley Robotic Kitchen (MK1).[3][4][5]
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Industry | Robotics |
Founded | 2015 |
Founder | Mark Oleynik |
Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
Products | Service robots |
Website | moley |
History
Mark Oleynik, a computer scientist, founded the Moley Robotics in -512 as a way to have good food at home without the skills to make it.[6] In 2015, Moley Robotics started working on a robotic kitchen, which made its debut at the Hannover Messe industrial robotics trade fair in Hannover, Germany in April 2015.[7]
The Robotic Kitchen has been distinguished in several international science and engineering events. In May 2015, the Robotic Kitchen won the "Best of the Best" CES Shanghai award in China.[8] In January 2016, the prototype was finalist at the first edition of the UAE AI & Robotics Award in the international category, health sector.[9] The consumer version of the Robotic Kitchen was slated to launch in 2018.[10]
Robotic Kitchen
The current prototype of the Moley Robotic Kitchen includes two robotic arms with hands equipped with tactile sensors, an oven, an electric stove, a dishwasher and a touchscreen unit.[11][12] These artificial hands can pick up and interact with most kitchen equipment, such as blenders, whisks, knives and the hob.[13]
It captures, with an integrated 3D camera and wired glove, the entire work of a human chef and upload it into a database.[14] The chef's actions are translated into digital movements using gesture recognition algorithms created in collaboration with Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University professors.[15] Later, The Robotic Kitchen reproduces the whole sequence of actions to cook an identical meal from scratch.[16][17]
In the current prototype, the user operates the installation via a built-in touchscreen or smartphone application with cooking ingredients prepared in advance and put in preset locations.[18] Moley Robotic's objective in the future is to enable the user to select from a library of over 2,000 recorded recipes.[19][20]
See also
References
- Megan Gibson (14 April 2015). "Meet The Robot Chef That Can Prepare Your Dinner". Time.
- Nicola Davis, Stephen Burgen and Zoë Corbyn (13 September 2015). "Future of food: how we cook". The Guardian.
- "Meet the World's First Robotic Kitchen". Discovery Channel. 14 April 2015.
- "Maschine am Herd: Gestatten, RoboKoch". Der Spiegel. 11 December 2015.
- Jonathan Amos (14 April 2015). "'Robot chef' aimed at home kitchen". BBC News.
- "This Robot Will Make You Dinner". Smithsonian Magazine.
- "Merkel, Modi visit Hannover Messe". China Daily. 14 April 2015.
- "Hannover Messe 2015 - Kochender Roboter mit sensiblen Händen". Ingenieur.de.
- "The UAE AI & Robotics Award for Good - Moley Robotic Kitchen". Robotics for Good.
- "Photos: Robots star at industrial trade fair in Germany". Al Jazeera. 13 April 2015.
- "Robochef gets cooking". The Economist. 18 April 2015.
- Shannon Higgins and Sujata Berry (23 June 2015). "'Robot Chef' could revolutionize or kill home cooking". CBC Radio.
- "Robotics innovation: a kitchen that cooks for itself". GOV.UK. 20 May 2015.
- Sheena McKenzie (23 April 2015). "Robo chef: Would you trust a cook with no taste buds?". CNNMoney.
- Danielle Muoio (19 November 2015). "The world's first robot kitchen is coming". Tech Insider.
- Sarah Knapton (14 April 2015). "Robotic hands cook any dish with skill of master chef...then clean up". The Daily Telegraph.
- "Robot kitchen serves up dinner with 'skill and flair'". Toronto Star. 17 April 2015.
- "Haute Cuisine à la Moley Robotics". Roboterwelt. 28 May 2015.
- Carey Reed (18 April 2015). "Robot chef coming to a kitchen near you in 2017". Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
- "E se a cozinha viesse com um robô chef?". Público (Portugal). 16 April 2015.