Robotics: Kitchen assistant will cook 5,000 recipes from scratch - and even do the washing up after

Meal prep just got considerably easier thanks to a robotic kitchen assistant that will cook 5,000 different recipes from scratch -- and even do the dishes afterwards. Developed by UK-based Moley Robotics, the cooking automaton has two dextrous hands and was modelled to mimic the 2011 MasterChef winner, Tim Anderson. The'Automated Kitchen' can gather ingredients from a smart fridge, fill pans, mix, pour, adjust hob temperatures and serve up -- just like a regular cook would. Unlike a human, however, it will never complain about having to do the washing up. The Automated Kitchen is the product of a collaboration of around one hundred engineers and designers -- along with three award-winning chefs -- and took six years to be fully realised and market-ready.