Motoman SDA10 robot shows off its cooking, camera-building skills
By Donald Melanson 
posted Dec 2nd 2008 8:07PM
posted Dec 2nd 2008 8:07PM
Yaskawa Electric's Motoman SDA10 robot has been out and about for a little while now (along with its not-so-distant relatives), but it's apparently not just getting by on its good looks alone, and it recently took advantage of Osaka's International Next-Generation Robot Fair to show off its newly developed cooking skills. While there unfortunately doesn't seem to be any video available, the word is it was able to take an order from a customer using its voice recognition capabilities and whip up some okonomiyaki (a pancake, of sorts) from scratch, with it even going so far as to serve it to the customer and top it off with some condiments. As if one human-replacing activity wasn't enough, the bot also recently made an appearance on a Japanese TV show where it assembled a camera and, thankfully, there is a video of that -- check it out after the break.
Me: Make Me a Sandwich
Robot: What? Make it yourself.
Me: Sudo make me a sandwich.
Robot: Okay.
Heh, that's what I thought immediately when I read the article.
+1 internets for xkcd ref.
By the way, I wonder what OS does the robot actually use.. (Or more appropriately, what's the robot OS based on... I'd insert movie/game reference here, but TBH I don't remember any)
lol.!
Well, maybe it's got Vista:
Human: Make me a sandwich.
Robot: You are trying to make a sandwich: Cancel or Allow?
Human: Allow.
Robot: Invalid error.
nice
I lol'd, and then had to explain sudo to my wife.
mind explaining to me?
It's a *nix command which makes anything that follows come from a "super-user" (I believe it stands for Super User Do), which essentially bypasses any security that Linux has.
For example "rm -rf *" (I shudder to type it), if executed in the wrong directory, would attempt to delete everything on a *nix computer. This would, of course, fail, but "sudo rm -rf *" could delete mostly everything on your hard drive. Or at least in your home folder.
Geek humor at its finest.
There was nothing wrong with that food. The salt level was 10% less than a lethal dose...
So this is the bot that will make food for the human slaves while we build more endoskeletons.
i guess i shouldnt have had seconds
Its better he build these than iPhones.
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Take the cup. TAKE THE CUP!
*Falls off of chair*
Robots are finally taking over.
Okonomiyaki is freakin' gross. Sorry, just sayin'
okonomyaki are really good. Friends+okonyaki+beer=jolly good night!
One of the contestants of Hell's Kitchen in 2020. By that time I'm sure we'll have a digital version of Gordon Ramsay as well!
With this, women will be obsolete!!
I can think of at least one prowess this has yet to best women in.
Tittehs?
@ chuckles ummm, i dont think so, if you went back n engadget a couple of weeks, you would understand.
Most women are obsolete, the problem is that the pathetic men out there follow any piece of skanky a$$ that walks by...
The next time you have a date with a woman, just hold up a stack of $20 bills and ask yourself, is she worth the time and effort?
And don't forget the pre-nups!
-House
-Car
-money
-iPhone
don't give her any part of it...
@iEye
It seems obvious to me that you are a virgin.
...or a bitter divorcee
Robot Pancakes and Robot Drinks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9iEgTjOi8Y). The future must be now?
Mom?
Alright! No more worrying about if the cook spit in your food.
What's with the Goku sonic?
"Waiter, I think the chef dripped lubricant on my lasagna."
no instead of spit, its cyanide.
Looks DEL.ICIO.US
I do not think assembling a camera is that much different then assembling a pancake for a robot. It is just a different set of instructions.
I've never assembled a pancake for a robot before....
Okonomiyaki isn't just for robots!
Robot Chef, any certificate?
Now if they really want to get some YouTube cred, they will make a video of two of these robots building a third, set to a romantic track.
Or pr0n music for bonus points.
Okonomiyaki is not a pancake. Nor is it a pizza or an omelet. Okonomiyaki is just okonomiyaki.
And it's one of the best foods ever.
I would love to see a dictionary written by you. "Aardvark: just an aardvark, nothing more."
Seriously though, all of the comparisons I hear made to okonomiyaki are pretty invalid.
Well, someone's going to have to say it, and I guess it will be me...
I for one welcome our new camera assembling pancake making overlords. :)
This thing could work in McDonalds as well.
For the shitty wage? I don't think it'd even raise the finger...
I dont think i would let a robot make my meals. I mean who is to say he won't become sentient and poison me or give me a ruthy and have his way with me? or who is to say he wont go off and kill steve jobs and take his brain and put it into his head? no one can guarrantee that. for now i will stick with my Sony AIBO. theres no way these dogs will ever turn on me, or is there?
The missing ingredient is love.
Wow, an assembly robot assembled something! It's amazing!
This is the beginning of our apocalypse. Poor humans...