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Re: Spyce Kitchen, a robotic chef built by four recent M.I.T. grads

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Post by leoedin » Mon, Apr 09, 2018, 10:30 PM UTC

lnsru wrote: post #50

sorenn111 wrote: post #6

I'm surprised Moley ( http://www.moley.com/ ) didn't get a mention. I'm super excited about robotic food preparation, especially in the case of consumer facing robotics where its a unit in your own kitchen. With that said, from the robotics progress I've seen/studied, more fundamental robotics progress needs to be made first. The approaches used right now are just not durable/reliable enough for mass market adoption.…

The price of $15k according their YouTube video is ridiculously low. Decent robot arm costs you $5k alone. Not sure how they will plan to make some profit even buying parts in bulk.

$5k is on the low end. The demo kitchen they did was with 2 UR5 robots, list price somewhere around $20k each. They put 2 5 finger hands on the end, which probably cost at least the same again each. I'd bet you'd be getting well towards $75k (or maybe even significantly more) just buying the components.

Re: Spyce Kitchen, a robotic chef built by four recent M.I.T. grads

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Post by baldfat » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 1:47 AM UTC

thatcat wrote: post #68

gamblor956 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your statement is technically libelous in nature, as you are accusing a major restaurant chain of not actually cooking any of there food based on spurious factual assumptions. You may want to consider asking dang to delete your comment. As a side note, if you walk into an Applebee's you can actually be seated at a table with a view of the kitchen, where you can watch the cooks at work. Applebee's may not be the best…

To be libelous it would need to be proven false. Some Applebees location has likely at least partially microwaved chicken/steak to ensure that it meets the minimum safe temperature during busy periods before.

Okay here is a quote:

Applebee's

Also, whenever someone wanted to order a 'medium rare' steak, and I had to say we only make them 'pink' or 'no pink.' That's because most of the kitchen is a row of microwaves. The steaks were cooked on a stove top, but then microwaved to death. Pink or no pink only referred to how microwaved to death you want your meat."

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/food-cocktails/news/a52288/chai...

Re: Spyce Kitchen, a robotic chef built by four recent M.I.T. grads

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Post by wiremine » Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 1:24 PM UTC

dominotw wrote: post #62

oh_sigh wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which ones specifically? At Dominos, I see people hand tossing dough and setting the ingredients whenever I go into one(not too frequently, don't judge me). I would imagine a group like Dominos would be the first to mechanize considering their scale?

what about the toppings, sauces ect?

I can't mention the name due to DNAs, but yes, the robot use cases includes sauce and toppings.

Re: Spyce Kitchen, a robotic chef built by four recent M.I.T. grads

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Post by Symmetry » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 3:50 PM UTC

jpm_sd wrote: post #46

Symmetry wrote: post #17

Nice to see them getting coverage, we were at the same startup incubator (Greentown) before we both moved on to larger offices. I can attest that the food this machine makes is, in fact, tasty.

The description in the article suggests that the machine does not actually make any of the food, it just measures and dispenses pre-cooked items into a bowl? So it's a glorified automatic dog feeder?

No, the machine actually does do the cooking. There's an induction based heater that also mixes the food. Different sorts of raw vegetables are added by a hopper in a sequence that depends on their cooking time. Finally the mixer/cooker dispenses the meal into a bowl.