[amelius]

> Also I am of the opinion that the best way to make a meal is a purpose built series of small machines to perform different tasks.

But these machines take a lot of space and require cleaning. Much better to have a robot with two hands that can perform more generalized tasks.

[TaylorAlexander]

They can stack vertically such that they take up less space than a commercial kitchen, which cannot stack vertically (at least not on the scale of multiple separate operations in one vertical meter) and requires space for humans to move around. An onion prepping machine might be 30cm x 30cm x 100cm. You could fit 11 mechanisms of that size in one cubic meter.

My view on cleaning is that the systems must be automatically self cleaning. Otherwise yes cleaning would be a pain.