[chihuahua]

The article has a link to a video about Moley Robotic's $338,000 robotic kitchen. It's quite eye-opening, because the robot appears to be a pair of arms/hands which can grab mise-en-place containers of ingredients, dump them into a saucepan, and stir them painfully slowly. I wonder:

- who peels and chops the vegetables etc that go into those containers?

- who cleans up the pots and utensils when the robot is done stirring and heating the food?

Ideally there would be another $300,000 robot for each of those two tasks, but I suspect the answer is that your (human) housekeeper is needed.

The video is worth watching just to laugh at how unbelievably slowly this $338,000 marvel is at stirring the contents of a saucepan.

The elevator pitch for Moley could be "Juicero, but for pasta"

[pjc50]

> - who peels and chops the vegetables etc that go into those containers?

> - who cleans up the pots and utensils when the robot is done stirring and heating the food?

Exactly. I'd want it the other way round: those are the boring tasks, give them to robots, let me mix and stir and watch and taste.

(Rule of thumb: if it's offstage in a cooking show or recipe tiktok, people want it automated)