Are Robotic Chefs the Future?

Imagine a day when, from the comfort of your home and with a few mouse clicks, you can have a Michelin-starred chef's recipe prepared for you right there and then -- by a robotic kitchen. Not only would the robot cook up a scrumptious dinner, but it would also clean up after itself, leaving you with nothing to do besides eat. That dream is soon set to become reality thanks to a London-based company called Moley Robotics. Founded by Russian-born Mark Oleynik (who is CEO), the robo-chef will be launched on the market in 2018. It already exists in prototype form, with dozens of recipes in its library. It looks much like any other kitchen -- with a hob, a sink, an oven and hanging kitchen utensils -- only it also has two giant robotic arms with five-fingered hands that do all the work. In preparation for an upcoming issue of Frontier Tech Investor, we visited Oleynik in his lab. I thought I'd share a few insights from that conversation with you today. We were lucky enough to witness the robo-chef in action as it made BBC MasterChef winner Tim Anderson's crab bisque.