That year's game was known as the Dot-Com Bowl. Twenty years later, Super Bowl LVI was called the Crypto Bowl, and featured ads from Coinbase, Crypto.com, and FTX. Soon, FTX was bankrupt, and Bitcoin was sputtering. This year, the Super Bowl was all about artificial intelligence, as Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Salesforce ran ads showing off their A.I. tools. "It is such a bad sign," Ed Zitron, an A.I. skeptic and the host of the tech podcast "Better Offline," said the other day.

The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, programmed their robotic chef with a'cookbook' of eight simple salad recipes. After watching a video of a human demonstrating one of the recipes, the robot was able to identify which recipe was being prepared and make it. In addition, the videos helped the robot incrementally add to its cookbook. At the end of the experiment, the robot came up with a ninth recipe on its own. Their results, reported in the journal IEEE Access, demonstrate how video content can be a valuable and rich source of data for automated food production, and could enable easier and cheaper deployment of robot chefs.

The robo-chef can learn how to create the perfect dish, simply from watching cooking videos. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have programmed a machine to make a meal by following how a human makes it. Using sophisticated AI, the robot is able to work out from every frame which objects it is looking at – such as a vegetable, hand, or knife – and how it is being used. Over time, it is then able to identify which ingredients work best together – and even point out when the human chef may have used the wrong amount. Robotic chefs have been featured in science fiction for decades, but in reality, cooking is a challenging problem for a robot.

The culinary robots are here. Not only to distinguish between food which tastes good and which doesn't, but also to become better cooks. A robot chef designed by researchers at Cambridge University has been trained to taste a dish's saltiness and the myriad of ingredients at different stages of chewing – a process imitating that of humans. It is a step above current electronic testing that only provides a snapshot of a food's salinity. Replicating the human process, researchers say, should result in a tastier end product. "If robots are to be used for certain aspects of food preparation, it's important that they are able to'taste' what they're cooking," said Grzegorz Sochacki, one of the researchers, from Cambridge's department of engineering.

A robot chef has been trained to'taste' food at different stages of the chewing process – just like humans do. The machine, created at the University of Cambridge, consists of a probe that can detect salt levels in food attached to the end of a robotic arm. Experts used the robot to taste scrambled eggs during different stages of mastication, including a runny liquid as it would appear just prior to swallowing. According to the scientists, robotic chefs that'taste test' dishes instead of humans could be a fixture of busy restaurant kitchens of the future. A robot'chef' has been trained to taste food at different stages of the chewing process to assess whether it's sufficiently seasoned. The perception of taste is a complex process in humans that has evolved over millions of years.

Machine learning makes another stride towards a futuristic society where a robot-chef revolutionizes post-COVID contactless restaurant experiences …

It's the go-to fast food restaurant for Mexican fans, and now Chipotle has announced its latest employee – a robot chef called Chippy. Chippy will be tasked with making Chipotle's famous tortilla chips, using artificial intelligence to perfect the chain's exact recipe. 'Our goal is to drive efficiencies through collaborative robotics that will enable Chipotle's crew members to focus on other tasks in the restaurant,' said Curt Garner, Chief Technology Officer at Chipotle. Chippy (pictured at the back of this test kitchen) will initially be tested at Chipotle's innovation hub in Irvine, California, before being integrated into a restaurant in Southern California later this year Chippy is trained to replicate Chipotle's exact recipe – using corn masa flour, water and sunflower oil to cook chips to perfection, season with a dusting of salt, and finish with a hint of fresh lime juice. 'It was imperative that the technique remained the same so customers receive delicious, craveable chips every time,' Chipotle said.

Served in a simmering pot with a selection of dunkable ingredients, cheese fondue is without a doubt one of the most popular dishes among cheese lovers around the world. Now, the famous Swiss dish can be prepared, stirred up and served by a robot chef. A Swiss team has been working away on Bouebot, the robotic creation putting a futuristic twist on an Alpine tradition. The robot, which cost up to £240,000 ($325,000) to develop, is set to make its grand debut at the Paris International Agricultural Show, one of the world's major food production trade fairs, which begins this weekend. The robot, which cost up to £240,000 ($325,000) to develop, is set to make its grand debut at the Paris International Agricultural Show, one of the world's major food production trade fairs, which begins this weekend It glugs the right amount of white wine into the'caquelon' pot, then places it under the cheese grater. The classic fondue mix is called a half-and-half - an even amount of Vacherin Fribourgeois and Gruyere cheese.

You can count burger-flipping robots as one pandemic innovation that's here to stay. White Castle announced today that it will be bringing Flippy 2, a robot chef that can essentially perform the same tasks as a team of fry cooks, to 100 more locations this year. This amounts to roughly a third of White Castle restaurants nationwide, so it's likely Flippy may become a permanent addition to this burger chain's workforce. Last fall the burger chain first teamed up with Miso Robotics, the makers of Flippy, to launch a pilot program in its Chicagoland location. The company then unveiled Flippy 2, the latest iteration of the chef robot, back in November.

Yet the price of such systems is likely to drop, says Julia Segal, senior strategist at US food consultancy The Culinary Edge: "Many of these technologies start well out of reach of the average home cook. However, as the technologies continue to proliferate, costs will eventually come down."