Meet Alfred, a robot who can help out in the kitchen - The Boston Globe

There's a new robot in the legion of automatons designed to change how restaurants prepare food. Cambridge-based Dexai Robotics on Thursday introduced a mechanized kitchen assistant, named "Alfred," that's intended to work in existing kitchens by using everyday utensils to assemble dishes. Its creators hope restaurants will see the product as an appliance that can help assemble meals like salads and poke bowls while reducing the need for humans to do repetitive tasks such as gather ingredients. Another startup, Spyce Food Co., has a restaurant in Downtown Crossing (currently closed for renovations) in which a wall-size apparatus prepares bowls of hot food, nearly from scratch. Dexai is going for a different market.