Will Smale and Kitti Palmai.
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On Christmas Day, why not have a robot chef do the cooking?
There are many people who are not happy about having to cook Christmas Day dinner.
For future Christmases, there is a new alternative - get a robot chef.
A number of tech firms are working to develop machines that can cook and plate up meals.
Moley Robotics, a London-based company, is due to release its product, the Moley Robotic Kitchen, next year.
Two robotic arms attached to rails fitted to the ceiling can cook thousands of different recipes. You pick the dish on the touch screen, add the ingredients, and it will do everything else.
Pick up saucepans and spatulas, stir, whisk and flip when it's on the oven or the stove.
Moley enlisted the services of a professional chef to help develop the robot.
The robot would be programmed to copy his movements.
Mr Anderson says that he would cook in a kitchen with a layout to that of the Moley kitchen, and his movements would be recorded, and then transferred onto the robotic hands and arms.
"After those movements were streamlined by the robotics team, we ended up with a consistent program that would produce the same dish every time."
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The Moley Robotic Kitchen was created by the developers.
Mark Oleynik says that the system operates behind a glass screen so that the robotic arms can't hit a human.
"We have safety radar systems that can detect any unwanted impacts between the robot and any surface and immediately stop the operation, thus reducing any such risks altogether."
Mr Oleynik says that the robot chef could help you make your Christmas Day meal. The cost is a significant problem for home cooks who want to place an order quickly.
The Moley Robotic Kitchen has a minimum price of £150,000. Israel's Kitchen Robotics and the US firm Dexai Robotics are developing similar kitchen robot systems.
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Julia Segal, senior strategist at The Culinary Edge, says that many of the technologies start out out of reach of the average home cook. Costs will eventually come down as the technologies continue to grow.
Pazzi is a restaurant group that uses a robot for all of its cooking.
The business is owned by two robotic engineering students who designed their own pizza-making robot and opened their first branch in Paris in 2019. They now have two outlets in the French capital and one in the Belgian capital.
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Pazzi now has three restaurants where its robots do all the cooking.
Once an order is received, the robot in each location completes the full process - pressing the dough, adding the sauce, cooking the pizza, placing it in the box, slicing it into pieces, and handing it to the customer. It takes five minutes per pizza.
Philippe Goldman says the robots have been programmed to maintain top quality control. If the robot finds holes in the dough, it will reject it and make a new one.
Pazzi has human employees in the kitchen when the restaurants are not open. The ingredients are prepared and the robots are loaded in the morning.
Mr Goldman says that Pazzi has received more than 1,000 inquires about its robots, including a lot coming from Italy.
A data scientist and expert in machine learning, Mikaela Pisani Leal works at a technology sector management consulting firm.
She says robot chefs are great for restaurants. The industry could be turned on its head by these robots.
She cautions that they could result in job losses and people having to change their lifestyles.
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Moley's system has a touch-screen and recommended recipes.
The owner and head chef of Seasonality, a fine dining restaurant in the town of Maidenhead, says that while kitchen robots offer convenience, they won't be of interest to the higher end of the market.
He doesn't believe a robot can replace a human touch in restaurants and pubs. The changes and variations of produce would not allow a robot to change a recipe.
A human chef has a natural passion and connection to the provenance of ingredients which shows in the creation and execution of menus.
"I do accept that robotic technology will help with the efficiency and consistency of menial jobs, but let's not forget that someone will still need to program it and stock it with produce."
Kitchen robots are a good idea for many of us who will not cook on Christmas Day.
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