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]

Moley Robotics
Private
IndustryRobotics
Founded2015
FounderMark Oleynik
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
ProductsService robots
Websitemoley.com

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
  1. Megan Gibson (14 April 2015). "Meet The Robot Chef That Can Prepare Your Dinner". Time.
  2. Nicola Davis, Stephen Burgen and Zoë Corbyn (13 September 2015). "Future of food: how we cook". The Guardian.
  3. "Meet the World's First Robotic Kitchen". Discovery Channel. 14 April 2015.
  4. "Maschine am Herd: Gestatten, RoboKoch". Der Spiegel. 11 December 2015.
  5. Jonathan Amos (14 April 2015). "'Robot chef' aimed at home kitchen". BBC News.
  6. "This Robot Will Make You Dinner". Smithsonian Magazine.
  7. "Merkel, Modi visit Hannover Messe". China Daily. 14 April 2015.
  8. "Hannover Messe 2015 - Kochender Roboter mit sensiblen Händen". Ingenieur.de.
  9. "The UAE AI & Robotics Award for Good - Moley Robotic Kitchen". Robotics for Good.
  10. "Photos: Robots star at industrial trade fair in Germany". Al Jazeera. 13 April 2015.
  11. "Robochef gets cooking". The Economist. 18 April 2015.
  12. Shannon Higgins and Sujata Berry (23 June 2015). "'Robot Chef' could revolutionize or kill home cooking". CBC Radio.
  13. "Robotics innovation: a kitchen that cooks for itself". GOV.UK. 20 May 2015.
  14. Sheena McKenzie (23 April 2015). "Robo chef: Would you trust a cook with no taste buds?". CNNMoney.
  15. Danielle Muoio (19 November 2015). "The world's first robot kitchen is coming". Tech Insider.
  16. Sarah Knapton (14 April 2015). "Robotic hands cook any dish with skill of master chef...then clean up". The Daily Telegraph.
  17. "Robot kitchen serves up dinner with 'skill and flair'". Toronto Star. 17 April 2015.
  18. "Haute Cuisine à la Moley Robotics". Roboterwelt. 28 May 2015.
  19. Carey Reed (18 April 2015). "Robot chef coming to a kitchen near you in 2017". Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
  20. "E se a cozinha viesse com um robô chef?". Público (Portugal). 16 April 2015.
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