{"id":108286,"date":"2020-06-06T18:46:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T01:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/robot-chef-uses-machine-learning-to-perfect-its-omelette-making-skills"},"modified":"2020-06-06T18:46:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T01:46:34","slug":"robot-chef-uses-machine-learning-to-perfect-its-omelette-making-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/robot-chef-uses-machine-learning-to-perfect-its-omelette-making-skills","title":{"rendered":"Robot chef uses machine learning to perfect its omelette-making skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G99hk9Tfw9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/flippy-robot-burgers\/48325\/\">robots that flip burgers<\/a> in California to ones that <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/bratwurst-bot-berlin-robot\/44434\/\">serve up bratwursts in Berlin<\/a>, we are starting to see how machines can play sous-chef in kitchens around the world. But scientists at the University of Cambridge have been exploring how these culinary robots might not only do some of the heavy lifting but actually elevate the dining experience for the humans they serve, demonstrating some early success in a robot trained to cook omelettes.<\/p>\n<p>The research project is a collaboration between the University of Cambridge researchers and domestic appliance company Beko, with the scientists setting out to take robotic cooking into new territory. Where robot chefs have been developed to prepare pizzas, pancakes and other items, the team was interested in how it might be possible to optimize the robot\u2019s approach and produce a tastier meal based on human feedback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCooking is a really interesting problem for roboticists, as humans can never be totally objective when it comes to food, so how do we as scientists assess whether the robot has done a good job?\u201d says Dr Fumiya Iida from Cambridge\u2019s Department of Engineering, who led the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From robots that flip burgers in California to ones that serve up bratwursts in Berlin, we are starting to see how machines can play sous-chef in kitchens around the world. But scientists at the University of Cambridge have been exploring how these culinary robots might not only do some of the heavy lifting but actually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}