A Restaurant in Boston Has Replaced Chefs with Robots

At Daniel Boulud's eponymous restaurant in Manhattan, a brigade of chefs works in unison every night to cook Dover sole with green asparagus or roasted veal tenderloin with a gorgonzola emulsion. The artfully crafted dishes call to mind the old Julia Child quote: "It's so beautifully arranged on the plate, you know someone's fingers have been all over it." This quote does not apply to Boulud's new venture in Boston, Spyce. Four MIT robotics students approached the legendary chef with an idea of creating a restaurant in which robots--not chefs--make the food. Impressed with the technology the MIT guys showed him, Boulud became an investor and culinary director.