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Pancake-Flipping Robots

The RoboHow Robot is Now Able to Mimic a Chef's Movements and Flip Food

— September 1, 2015 — Tech
While the RobotHow robot was first engineered to help educate other robots how to understand language, now it has been upgraded to include include several cooking skills so that it can do small tasks such as making pizza or even flip pancakes.

For the RobotHow to learn how to do something as seemingly simple as flip pancakes, every exact movement and motion needs to be understood. Once the process and steps are understood and actionable, RobotHow can upload to wikiHow so that other robots can learn to do the same actions. The end result is quite impressive as the robot is able to flip pancakes entirely on its own just like a human would. It might not be long before everyone starts to have robot chefs making them breakfast.
Trend Themes
1. Cooking Robot Skills - The trend of robots acquiring cooking skills opens up disruptive innovation opportunities in the food service industry, allowing for automated food preparation and increased efficiency.
2. Robots in Education - The trend of using robots to teach other robots skills creates opportunities for disruptive innovation in the field of robotic education, enabling faster and more efficient learning processes.
3. Automated Food Preparation - The trend of robots being able to perform cooking tasks like flipping pancakes paves the way for disruptive innovation in the culinary industry, automating traditional food preparation processes.
Industry Implications
1. Food Service - The food service industry can benefit from the disruptive innovation opportunities presented by cooking robot skills, as it allows for cost-effective, high-quality food preparation and increased productivity.
2. Robotic Education - The field of robotic education can utilize the trend of robots teaching other robots skills to create disruptive innovation in teaching methodologies and faster skill acquisition processes.
3. Culinary - The culinary industry can explore disruptive innovation opportunities by embracing automated food preparation, enabling more efficient and consistent cooking processes and potentially reducing labor costs.
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