Cooky Makes Miso Soup, You Still Do The Work

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 16 of December , 2009 at 12:01 am

First, just let me say that this group of cooking robots (collectively named “Cooky”) is totally coo. As you can kinda see from the video, their development environment is completely open and simple to use, allowing you to coordinate multiple robots performing different tasks with different ingredients. And that’s great.

Thing is, this is such a good example of why robots don’t really work in the home yet. Yes, it’s true that while the robots are making your soup, you can go do other things… But you still have to do all of the prep work and spend a bunch of time setting up the system. And then you have to clean up. And of course, there’s all the programming (although hypothetically you can just download the soup you want). Most household robots are sort of at this stage, with the possible exception of the Roomba, although even the Roomba (in my experience) is just barely above the break even threshold when it comes to time spent futzing with the robot and prepping the floor versus time that would be spent doing the vacuuming yourself.

[ Cooky ] VIA [ GetRobo ]

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