Food Arrangement Framework for Cooking Robots

Nagahama, Hoshito; Ramirez-Alpizar, Ixchel G.; Harada, Kensuke

doi:10.1109/aim52237.2022.9863320

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“…The stir‐fry cooking robot used visual feedback of contents deformation to adjust the movements in real‐time to achieve the desired stir‐fry effect (Liu et al, 2022). A CNN was trained to assess the esthetics of food arrangement on a plate and paired with an algorithm that was used by a robot to rearrange the food on a plate (Nagahama et al, 2022). CNN was also used to assess the cooking state of various foods (Salekin et al, 2019).…”

Section: Emerging Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards practical robotic chef: Review of relevant work and future challenges

Sochacki,

Zhang,

Abdulali

et al. 2024

Journal of Field Robotics

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Robotic chefs are a promising technology that can improve the availability of quality food by reducing the time required for cooking, therefore decreasing food's overall cost. This paper clarifies and structures design and benchmarking rules in this new area of research, and provides a comprehensive review of technologies suitable for the construction of cooking robots. The diner is an ultimate judge of the cooking outcome, therefore we put focus on explaining human food preferences and perception of taste and ways to use them for control. Mechanical design of robotic chefs at a practically low cost remains the challenge, but some recently published gripper designs as well as whole robotic systems show the use of cheap materials or off‐the‐shelf components. Moreover, technologies like taste sensing, machine learning, and computer vision are making their way into robotic cooking enabling smart sensing and therefore improving controllability and autonomy. Furthermore, objective assessment of taste and food palatability is a challenge even for trained humans, therefore the paper provides a list of procedures for benchmarking the robot's tasting and cooking abilities. The paper is written from the point of view of a researcher or engineer building a practical robotic system, therefore there is a strong priority for solutions and technologies that are proven, robust and self‐contained enough to be a part of a larger system.

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Section: Emerging Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%