Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Our BratWurst Bot is an autonomous robot that grills sausages all by itself. It is made of off the shelf robotic components: Universal Robots UR-10 arm, Schunk PG-70 gripper, two standard RGB cameras, normal grill tongs and gas grill.

Robots are taking over our lives - and our jobs. Now, in the hopes of showing how easy it is for droids to take over human tasks, one team of scientists has created a robotic chef out of off-the-shelf parts. The BratWurst Bot is a one-armed sausage chef, which can take your order, have a chat with you, cook you a sausage and even serve it to you. At the robot's launch at the 53rd Stallwächterparty (Stable Guard party) of the Federal government of Baden-Württemberg State in Berlin, it managed to serve 200 sausages To order, customers enter their name on a tablet, which is added to the queue. The customer is instantly given a running total on the remaining prep time so they can count down to their sausage.