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Chippy the Robot is Chipotle's New Tortilla Chip BotIn the near future, your tortillas could be android-made. Chipotle is commissioning Miso Robotics to manufacture a robot that can make tortillas from scratch. The prototype is called Chippy.With artificial intelligence, Chippy is trained to replicate Chipotle's exact recipe – using corn masa flour, water and sunflower oil – to cook chips to perfection, season with a dusting of salt, and finish with a hint of fresh lime juice. It was essential that the technique remained the same so customers could enjoy the same texture and taste.Chippy is currently being tested at the Chipotle Cultivate Center, Chipotle's innovation hub in Irvine, Calif., and will be introduced to a Chipotle outlet in Southern California later this year.#robot #MisoRobotics #Chipotle #tortilla #chip #restaurant #cooking

White Castle to Get "Flippy 2" Robot Fry Cooks to Serve Food FasterAbout two years ago, the American burger chain White Castle decided to deploy a robot from Miso Robotics. Aptly named Flippy, this robot can flip burgers — a huge help for human cooks in fast food restaurants. After getting satisfactory results from a test run of the autonomous robot, White Castle decided to deploy more Flippy robots to more locations. Miso Robotics unveiled Flippy 2 in November 2021. Of course, White Castle availed of their partner's new robot. The restaurant chain has recently announced that it will be installing Flippy 2 in 100 of its locations. Compared to the previous model, this version takes 56% less aisle space and is 13% shorter. The main difference between Flippy and Flippy 2 is that the former model is a burger-flipping robot, while this one takes over a whole frying station. While it seems that this version no longer cooks burgers, it can fry chicken tenders, onion rings, and french fries. With a Flippy robot by their side, cooks at White Castle will have a less stressful environment. (Image Credit: Miso Robotics) #Innovation #Robots #Burgers #Fastfood #Cooking #WhiteCastle #MisoRobotics

Now We're Cooking with Lasers: Engineers Cook 3D-Printed Chicken with Multiwavelength LasersColumbia engineers have been working on a machine that 3D prints meat and cooks it using lasers. It is said to be a potential personal chef in anyone’s home that only needs a little bit of tapping on its buttons before the food is ready to be made.The team of researchers also hope that in the future people can design and share their own food, similar to sharing music. They call it a ‘Food CAD’ where softwares can be used to tweak their own food according to their own taste.Jonathan Blutinger, a PhD student in Columbia University and the lead author of this study, said, “Food is something that we all interact with and personalize on a daily basis – it seems only natural to infuse software into our cooking to make meal creation more customizable.”Image: Jonathan Blutinger/Columbia University#food #technology #cooking #lasers #engineering

Samsung’s Robot Chef Brings Automated Assistance to your Kitchen! Samsung has introduced the Samsung Bot Chef, a machine that can help people prepare their meals!According to the official press release, the Bot Chef can ‘read, understand, and divide up the tasks in regular recipes, and use tools that you normally use.’ It uses sensors to look and find things in the kitchen, and if it can’t find or reach for something, the machine will ask for help. Now that’s like having a companion in the kitchen!This product concept is intelligent enough to slow down or stop completely if it detects a person’s presence near it, and it will wait for the person to move away before continuing its tasks. In addition to having multiple sensors, the Bot Chef has two Saram arms that hold and manipulate different kitchen tools. One of the highlights of Samsung’s newest machine is that it can learn new skills by downloading them from ‘a skills ecosystem.’ This means that it can learn how to find and use non-smart appliances to help people in the kitchen, from blending a soup to making a cup of coffee-- the Bot Chef holds a great deal of potential!Image credit: Samsung#Samsung #BotChef #Machine #Robot #Technology #Kitchenware #Cooking #ArtificialIntelligence #AI 

See This Ghost Kitchen Robot in Action As It Prepares MealsKitchen Robotics, a company that automates ghost kitchens with hardware and software tools, released a video of their Beastro Ghost Kitchen Robot working on some meals. The robot is a big step toward having a fully automated ghost kitchen.The cooking process goes like this: after dispensing ingredients in a bowl, the Beastro robot mixes and heats them until they’re fully cooked. Overall, the robot can make 45 Italian and Asian cuisines, soups, salads, and other dishes in an hour. Moreover, it sanitizes its cook bowls afterwards and can work quickly without taking breaks.Kitchen Robotics also uses a cloud-based software called Cuismo. Through this program, the company is able to monitor, customize, and optimize the process of making each dish.Watch the Beastro robot make some meals in the video clip below.Video Credits: Kitchen Robotics#robot #kitchen #cooking #cookingbot #BeastroGhostKitchenRobot