Chinesisches Start-up will menschliche Köche durch Roboter ersetzen – Kochroboter können Restaurants dabei helfen, die Arbeitskosten um 30 Prozent zu senken und Lebensmittel- und Gewürzabfälle um 10 Prozent zu reduzieren
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3288706/chinese-start-touts-robot-chefs-ai-future-restaurant-kitchens
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From the article
>The solution is Omni, a robot that can stir fry or stew, add seasoning and clean up by itself with limited manual intervention. An operator, rather than an experienced chef, can simply choose a recipe and follow the steps shown on the touch screen to complete the dish. They can also operate multiple robots at the same time.
>The company uses AI to achieve the right temperature and seasoning during the cooking process. Chen is also exploring how to use AI to generate recipes that meet changing tastes from restaurants and customers.
>The deployment of cooking robots can help restaurants cut labour costs by 30 per cent, as well as reduce food and seasoning waste by 10 per cent, according to Botinkit.
All that matters is taking jobs away from humans. Just like self check outs in grocery stores.
What cooking costs? [Look in the kitchen of any Chinese restaurant. It’s one guy. He’s not even a chef, he’s someone’s uncle from Hong Kong. He can make anything on the menu in 20 minutes while smoking and cussing casually in Cantonese!](https://youtu.be/aIgdN5HTnSY?si=YRSvAo3PBvVWoz8N)
This is literally what they already do in food production for much of the food you buy in grocery stores. They use automation to increase production and cut costs.
So in effect what they’re really doing is replacing the back-of-house of a restaurant with the same sort of automation they use to mass produce food for grocery stores. Industrial cookers, steamers, portioners, etc. With just enough humans to make sure the machines are loaded correctly and don’t jam up.
I was a professional cook for about 15 years. This kind of thing bothers me, because in my mind one of the main reasons to go out to a restaurant is to experience the food creations of another human being, using human skill, to create food to order. I love going to from-scratch restaurants.
If it’s just going to be industrially mass-produced food, I can get that from the grocery store. Why spend the extra time and money to „go out“ to get machine-made food?
Will the machine break down and cry when Chef Ramsey calls it a Stupid Donkey?
It was always going to happen. However it’ll just be the same sort of divide we have between fast food places and sit down restaurants now, just with different companies on each side of the divide. Some places will buy into the robot chef idea, other places will advertise „cooked by humans“ (or more likely the adverts will focus on „seasoned by humans“ since that will be the major flaw in a machines ability to cook). Folk will decide for themselves where they want to eat based on morals and price points.
And also put a lot of people out of work. I wonder how’d that go in china…
Reduce food and seasoning waste by 10% sounds ominous.
The way that reads to me makes it come off as robots won’t be consuming or care about the quality of ingredients; get a bad batch of something? Cooked regardless, whereas a human would throw it out.
Good luck with that. I never worked as a chef but it seems to me that there’s a lot of work to do at once that a machine just can’t.
You still need people to cut vegetables, stir, move things around and just clean, and a machine is not that good at making a lot of different things at once.
Besides, the price for you to buy a machine will be way more expensive than whatever a chef costs
Might as well speed up this economic collapse, prices already suck.
I don’t care about AI drawing picture, making videos or music, I want to have a robot with AI being able to cook and catch up on my chores at home
It’s like modern capitalists completely forgot what Henry Ford knew intuitively: there have to be enough people who earn enough money to buy the products you make. At some point there will not be enough people who can afford to dine at the restaurant, no matter how much the robot reduces costs.
For fast food situations, apart from the loss of low income employment, I have little issue with robots in the kitchen.
However, if it’s a table service restaurant, you better have a human cooking, or I can just cook at home.
It’s more of a vending machine when you think about it
I guess the only remaining question is how to get the robots to start smoking cigarettes and where to place the tattoos.
Dude…. who the fuck is going to be able to purchase food when everyone’s jobs are AI
“cut labor costs” is a cool way to say “replace human workers.”
These savings wouldn’t translate to much. There’s still all the overheads like rent and other staff. Might only be 10% cheaper for the customer. Assuming it even gets passed on. Feels like a bad thing if society were to wipe chefs just for that.
Given that cooking is more art than science, and robots have the creativity of a shovel. I can see a lot of restaurants going out of business. lol
And beer will still cost $10 a bottle, but I guess you’ll save some on the food end. Kidding, we all know the surplus will go into the pockets
How is this different from Miso robotics in the US?
Only if you ignore the capital costs of buying said robots, and pretend they don’t need maintained, of course.
Countdown to a person getting stir fried and served up because of a freak kitchen accident.
We’ve tried this in the US several times and it hasn’t worked out in any significant way. Maybe they’ll have a breakthrough, but I’m not holding my breath.