Posts
Japanese inventors came up with robots that can cook and prepares to take over the kitchen.
Various prototype robo-chefs showed off their cooking skills at the International Food Machinery and Technology Expo in Tokyo this week, flipping "okonomiyaki" Japanese pancakes, serving sushi and slicing vegetables.
Japan has one of the world's fastest aging societies and experts say robots can help care for the growing number of elderly, and fill in for the lack of young people willing to take on jobs as chefs, cleaners or caretakers.
Japan is home to almost half the world's 800,000 industrial robots and expects the industry to expand to $10 billion.
Tomio Sugiura, president of Sugiura Kikai Sekkei, which manufactured the vegetable-slicing robot, saw a robot in every home in the near future.
"Nowadays, almost every family has a car. In the near future, every family would be having a humanoid robot that can help out various things at home," he said.
source: ph.news.yahoo.com
Various prototype robo-chefs showed off their cooking skills at the International Food Machinery and Technology Expo in Tokyo this week, flipping "okonomiyaki" Japanese pancakes, serving sushi and slicing vegetables.
Japan has one of the world's fastest aging societies and experts say robots can help care for the growing number of elderly, and fill in for the lack of young people willing to take on jobs as chefs, cleaners or caretakers.
Japan is home to almost half the world's 800,000 industrial robots and expects the industry to expand to $10 billion.
Tomio Sugiura, president of Sugiura Kikai Sekkei, which manufactured the vegetable-slicing robot, saw a robot in every home in the near future.
"Nowadays, almost every family has a car. In the near future, every family would be having a humanoid robot that can help out various things at home," he said.
source: ph.news.yahoo.com
