Moley Robotics

Moley Robotics
Private
Industry Robotics
Founded 2015
Founder Mark Oleynik
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
Products Service robots
Website moley.com

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.[3][4][5]

History

Mark Oleynik, a computer scientist, founded the Moley Robotics in 2014 as a way to have good food at home without the skills to make it.[6] In 2015, Moley Robotics partnered started working on a robotic kitchen.[7] Subsequently, the company introduced its Robotic Kitchen. It made its debut at the Hannover Messe industrial robotics trade fair in Hannover, Germany in April 2015.[8]

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.[9] In January 2016, the prototype was finalist at the first edition of the AI & Robotics Award in the international category, health sector.[10] The consumer version of the Robotic Kitchen is slated to launch in 2018.[11]

Robotic Kitchen

The current prototype of the Moley Robotic Kitchen includes two robotic arms with hands equipped with tactile sensors, an oven, a stove, and a touchscreen unit.[12][13] These artificial hands can pick up and interact with most kitchen equipment, such as blenders, whisks, knives and the hob.[14] It captures, with an integrated 3D camera, the entire work of a human chef and upload it into a database.[15] The chef’s actions are translated into digital movements using algorithms created in collaboration with Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University professors.[16] Later, The Robotic Kitchen reproduces the whole sequence of actions to cook an identical meal from scratch.[17][18]

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.[19] Moley Robotic’s objective in the future is to enable the user to select from a library of over 2,000 recorded recipes.[20][21]

References

  1. ↑ Megan Gibson (14 April 2015). "Meet The Robot Chef That Can Prepare Your Dinner". Time (magazine).
  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. ↑ Katherine Rushton (13 April 2015). "Robocook: The $14,000 extra pair of hands in the kitchen that can whip up your favorite recipes". Daily Mail.
  8. ↑ "Merkel, Modi visit Hannover Messe". China Daily. 14 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "Hannover Messe 2015 - Kochender Roboter mit sensiblen Händen". Ingenieur.de.
  10. ↑ "The UAE AI & Robotics Award for Good - Moley Robotic Kitchen". Robotics for Good.
  11. ↑ "Photos: Robots star at industrial trade fair in Germany". Al Jazeera. 13 April 2015.
  12. ↑ "Robochef gets cooking". The Economist. 18 April 2015.
  13. ↑ Shannon Higgins and Sujata Berry (23 June 2015). "'Robot Chef' could revolutionize or kill home cooking". CBC Radio.
  14. ↑ "Robotics innovation: a kitchen that cooks for itself". GOV.UK. 20 May 2015.
  15. ↑ Sheena McKenzie (23 April 2015). "Robo chef: Would you trust a cook with no taste buds?". CNNMoney.
  16. ↑ Danielle Muoio (19 November 2015). "The world's first robot kitchen is coming". Tech Insider.
  17. ↑ Sarah Knapton (14 April 2015). "Robotic hands cook any dish with skill of master chef...then clean up". The Daily Telegraph.
  18. ↑ "Robot kitchen serves up dinner with ‘skill and flair’". Toronto Star. 17 April 2015.
  19. ↑ "Haute Cuisine à la Moley Robotics". Roboterwelt. 28 May 2015.
  20. ↑ Carey Reed (18 April 2015). "Robot chef coming to a kitchen near you in 2017". Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
  21. ↑ "E se a cozinha viesse com um robô chef?". Público (Portugal). 16 April 2015.

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