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  • Robot arms will cook your meals like a 'MasterChef'

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    04.14.2015

    You could swap hands with the Robot Devil and still not be as good a chef as this prototype from Moley Robotics. The unit consists of two mechanical arms terminating in a pair of highly dexterous biomimetic hands. Designed by 2011 MasterChef winner Tim Anderson, and currently on display at the Hanover Messe industrial robotics show, these arms move just like he does. Namely because that's what they were programmed to do. To "teach" the unit to make crab bisque for the show, Anderson didn't spend countless hours hand coding the unit's behavior and actions. Instead, he constructed a replica kitchen, set up motion capture cameras, then made the dish himself and had his movements digitized for the robot to mimic.