Bangalore-based startup Mechanical Chef has
created a Compact Cooking Robot that is more
suitable for Indian Homes.
Cooking takes a lot of time.
Someone in the family ends up spending two
to three hours in the kitchen each day.
This turns out to be a very heavy burden on
nuclear families and bachelors / spinsters.
The Mechanical Chef lightens the burden of
the cook by preparing a full meal automatically.
Its user only needs to load in cut vegetables.
The machine does the everything else and presents
a delicious meal.
This Cooking Robot prepares many Indian Foods
by doing 3 opertions.
One is, Dropping – ingredients into the
dish being cooked; Second opertion is, Heating
– the dish being cooked; The third one is,
Stirring – the contents.
These three operations are all that it takes
to prepare many Indian dishes.
The machine already comes loaded with all
the spices that are needed for cooking
The user adds the vegetables needed for the
cook and the machine then takes over and does
everything else
When the user selects what they want to cook,
the machine guides them through what vegetables
they need to prepare and cut, in the quantities
they need.
It then guides them through the loading of
the vegetables into the machine.
The vessels that hold the vegetables and any
part of the machine that comes into contact
with the food can be snapped on and off, and
is therefore easy to clean.
The number of such parts to clean is also
minimized.
People will prefer the flexibility of having
a cooking machine at hand that can cook for
them at any time, especially one that they
can control from their phone so that it starts
cooking when its users
are still on their way back from work.
To keep the cost minimum, this Cooking Robot
is desinged to avoid any movement against
Gravity, and it uses rotation rather than
any linear motion.
Though this Robot does most of the Cooking
automatically, it still has some limitations.
With the current AI Technology, it is still
not a simple matter to build cutting machines
that are also easy to clean.
So, a human would be needed to do the cutting
and peeling.
The Mechanical Chef also doesn’t prepare
any dishes that require shaping, such as rotis,
dosas and idlis.
