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This Guy Attached 21 Chef's Knives to a Slicing Robot Arm to Determine Which One Is Best

WIREDJul-15-2025, 11:00:00 GMT

People occasionally ask me if AI is coming for my job. I'm pretty hands-on, which gives me a bit of a feeling of security. But that feeling dropped a bit when I saw a robot with a knife in its gripper, testing its edge. The robot is a side project from Seattle Ultrasonics, a tiny operation run by Scott Heimendinger, an alumni of Modernist Cuisine and Anova, and cofounder of the beloved Sansaire sous vide company. Before all that, he was at Microsoft, working on software that became Power Query and Power BI. "I'm pretty ridiculously good at Excel," Heimendinger says, referring to his time at Microsoft before pausing.

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