Miscellaneous

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Someone taught a machine to make recipes and they're horrifying

Published on Apr 9, 2017

Can a computer learn to cook? Or at least make receipes for food people want to eat? No. Not this one. Kim Horcher breaks it down.

"In her spare time, research scientist Janelle Shane enjoys conducting weird, pop-culture-inspired experiments and sharing them on her popular Tumblr. Previously, she used a neural network (a learning program like in Terminator) to come up with names for Pokémon."

 

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E727: Future of Food: ROBOTS! Zume Pizza, Cafe X & Chowbotics; Hotel Tonight: give away your product

Published on Apr 25, 2017

Filmed at LAUNCH Festival 2017, Jason sits down with Alex Garden of Zume Pizza, Henry Hu of Cafe X, and Deepak Sekar of Chowbotics to have a candid discussion about the future of robotics in the food industry—the inspiration for their companies, successes, regulation challenges, and the great debate around automation of labor. And then Amanda Richardson of HotelTonight shares her experiences of being a small company in a crowded industry, getting attacked by one of their largest competitors, and how her team went from 2-3 bookings a day to now doing tens of thousands of room nights a day, with 20m downloads, in 37 different countries. She challenges us to focus on the “superpower” of being a small company, to know your users, and to think about your differentiation in the industry.

 

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How food-bots are changing how we eat

Published on May 10, 2017

Artificial intelligence and advanced automation are everywhere including our farm fields and kitchens. How will robots change the way we grow, harvest and cook our food?

 

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Costa-Bot : The first 'robot-waiter' serving coffee in the world

Published on Jun 22, 2017

 

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These crazy robots serve you at this Korean BBQ restaurant

Published on Jul 1, 2017

Conveyor belts are so 2016. Gen Korean BBQ is changing the Korean BBQ experience with robots that deliver you your food.

 

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Barista: The first robot serving coffee to the tables in the world

Published on Jul 7, 2017

The Barista robot was created by two students from the Institut La Guineueta and the company The Construct with the support of Costa Coffee (Barcelona).

In July the 12th, we will share this exciting moment: a release conference and demonstration of Barista robot. The event will be taking place in Barcelona, we welcome people from all walks of life to this event.

theconstructsim.com/robot-barista-serving-coffee

 

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Barista

Published on Jul 14, 2017

Want a Barista robot for your coffeeshop?
Barista: the first robot serving coffee to the tables in the world.

 

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Perfect Pint Robot nearly complete

Published on Jun 26, 2017

with only a few finishing touches left to add. The video shows the robot in its most recent form. You can see that it’s had a nice lick of paint, along with the new 3D printed fixtures and a touch screen for customer access. We are almost ready for the competition!

 

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Pic2Recipe: Predicting recipes from photos

Published on Jul 20, 2017

"Learning Cross-modal Embeddings for Cooking Recipes and Food Images"

by Amaia Salvador, Nicholas Hynes, Yusuf Aytar, Javier Marin, Ferda Ofli, Ingmar Weber, Antonio Torralba

"Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos"
Given a still image of a dish filled with food, CSAIL team's deep-learning algorithm recommends ingredients and recipes.

by Adam Conner-Simons, Rachel Gordon
July 20, 2017

 

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NoodleBot breakdown
June 5, 2017

This is the breakdown for my final major project at Bournemouth University. I was responsible for all aspects of this piece.
Modeling in Maya, Zbrush and Marvelous Designer.
Texturing in Substance Painter and Mari.
Lighting in Maya.
Rendering in V-Ray.
Compositing in Nuke.

 

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RoboTwist review - as seen on TV jar opener

Published on Aug 2, 2017

The As Seen On TV RoboTwist will take over opening jars and save you the wrist pain. The RoboTwist opens a surprising variety of jar and lid sizes- though it does have some limits. I was pleased!

 

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"Examples of AI in Restaurants and Food Services"

by Kumba Sennaar
March 2, 2018

 

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Article "RoboBusiness 2017: What’s cooking in robotics?"

by Oliver Mitchell
October 5, 2017

 

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Our robot Eva learns to make coffee

Published on Nov 8, 2017

Eva learns to use our coffee machine. Watch Choreograph, our software platform, get Eva up and running in a minutes.

PS. The coffee was good

Eva, lightweight robotic arm, Automata Technologies Limited, London, United Kingdom

 

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P-Rob mixing drinks at Man's World Exhibition

Published on Mar 14, 2018

We introduced P-Rob to some new bartender skills.

P-Rob, robot arms, F&P Robotics AG, Glattbrugg, Zurich, Switzerland

 

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A robot that shoots energy drink at you when you get tired

Published on Apr 21, 2018

 

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Lego Breakfast Machine - MOC

Published on May 3, 2018

My father cooks breakfast every Saturday and Sunday- it is 104 times a year! He deserved this present.

This is probably the most challenging project so far. There are two main parts: Egg Cracker and Breakfast picker.

Technical elements:
10 Lego PF Motors
1 BuWizz brick
2 Sbrick Plus
1 Lego IR Reciever

 

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Automatic hamburger machine - 50 years ahead of its time!

Published on Jan 16, 2014

Fifty years ago, the engineers of AMF's Central Research Labs in Stamford, CT invented automated foodservice. This entertaining film (circa 1964) describes a pilot operation for the then-burgeoning fast-food industry.

Watch as hamburgers, hotdogs, chicken, seafood, french-fries, onion rings, shakes, and soft drinks are ordered, prepared, and packaged automatically by AMF's revolutionary AMFare System.

All the food was delicious, especially the flame-broiled hamburgers, double-hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The entire menu was cooked-to-order and served in minutes - at the desired temperature for each item.

AMF's Orbis system (shown here) pioneered the concept of electronic ordering, price tabulation, and inventory management in foodservice. Today that is the standard worldwide. However, AMF's Orbis system went further; it electronically controlled the machinery that prepared, cooked, and packaged the food items. AMF's automated beverage dispensers (also shown here) are today common at the "drive-through windows" of many fast-food operations.

 

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Military scientists create coffee algorithm for optimized caffeine intake

Published on Jul 2, 2018

Whats the best way to consume caffeine? Kim Horcher and Jenna Busch talk about a new algorithm that provides a guide for using caffeine in the best way possible. Let us know how much coffee you drink in a day in the comments below!

“I've had four coffees today: one right after breakfast, followed by chasers whenever I felt I was flagging (but probably just wanted a distraction). It looks like I've been doing this all wrong.”

 

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Article "Tito’s Handmade Vodka partners with Allrecipes on Barkeep, a mixologist chatbot"

by Kyle Wiggers
July 26, 2018