Mr. Future

Osaka Museum of Creative Industries was host to a number of culinary robot wonders, but best among them had to be Toyo Riki’s Takoyaki-bot.  A rare treat in the states, Takoyaki is an intimidating but delicious junkfood of choice for Tokyo street food carts.

The robot chef prepared each octopus-ball fritter individually from scratch, mixing, pouring, turning, adding more batter at just the right moment. Finally it arranged the takoyaki on a plate, basting each one with sauce, and shaking on a bit of seaweed and fish flakes for good measure.

RobotWatch has a film of the robot in action here.

Link (via LiveScience)

A brilliant (Brilliant!) project developed by Demitrios Kargotis and the Royal College of Art, is almost certainly the first soft-serve dispenser with artificial intelligence.

“Employing voice stress analysis of the user’s answers to specific
questions, varying degrees of unhappiness are measured and the
counteractive quantity of ice cream is dispensed: The more unhappy you
are, the more ice cream you need.”

Link (via We Make Money Not Art)