Will kitchen robots change the way we eat?

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Kitchens across the world are opting for robots that cook and clean. Rohin Malhotra, Co-founder of Bengaluru, India-based startup Nymble Labs told The Sociable that kitchen robots will help people with the everyday eating scenario of today and its associated problems apart from the cooking itself.

Planning meals customized for our health preferences, creating a grocery list, and sourcing them for the user, is what the future entails for the kitchen.

“An entire generation is growing in a convenience economy,” he says.

“Products and services are available to us at the tap of a button. In the context of everyday food, this has resulted into us making choices like eating out, ordering in, or ready-to-eat meals from the supermarket. The underlying thread being that cooking at home every day after work is an inconvenient and cumbersome process.”

Nymble Labs is building the kitchen robot, Julia. To cook a recipe, a user can browse through a list of recipes on Julia’s display screen. After selecting a particular recipe, users are prompted to put in prepped fresh ingredients like veggies, meat, rice, pasta in certain containers housed within the appliance.

Then the user chooses personal taste preferences, number of people to cook for, and presses ‘cook’. Julia notifies the user when done. The robot can cook most one-pot meals like pastas, stir-fries, curries, rice dishes, soups, and stews and is targeted towards the US market as well as the Indian.

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