Robot uses AI to learn to cook cracking good eggs
Robot wars this is not – it’s more Robo MasterChef as one little machine learns how to make an omelette from scratch.To get more news about Quail egg machinery, you can visit dinneregg official website.
The robot must know how and when to add ingredients and also how to make the omelette taste good, which is a subjective human experience.Getting it right involves texture, smell and appearance, showing there’s more to cooking than just following a recipe of ingredients.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge worked with the domestic appliance company Beko to train the unnamed robot.
"Cooking is a really interesting problem for roboticists, as humans can never be totally objective when it comes to food, so how do we as scientists assess whether the robot has done a good job?" said Fumiya Iida from Cambridge's department of engineering, who led the research.
The results show that machine learning can be used to record measurable improvements in food optimisation.
Teaching a robot to cook involves complex problems in robot manipulation, computer vision, sensing and human-robot interaction to produce a consistent end product.Advances in artificial intelligence have led to several prototype robot chefs but, so far, they have not replicated the skills of a human chef.
Other groups have trained robots to make biscuits, pancakes and pizza, but these robot chefs have not been optimised for the many subjective variables involved in cooking.Egg dishes, omelettes in particular, are considered a test of culinary skill."An omelette is one of those dishes that is easy to make, but difficult to make well," Mr Iida said.
"We thought it would be an ideal test to improve the abilities of a robot chef, and optimise for taste, texture, smell and appearance.