The folks over at the Technical University of Munich are hard at work developing a type of robot that could help you out in the kitchen. Clearly aimed at those people who don’t know how, or are too lazy to cook for themselves, this robot chef can also set the table.

As opposed to using strictly visual and range sensory inputs, this robot uses a series of RFID tags placed in the dishes and untensils around the kitchen to let it know what is what. This apparently gives the robot an edge in processing tasks and involves a lot less coding.

Michael Beetz, project leader for the robotic kitchen aid robot said:

If you want to interpret and understand everyday activities by using vision data, it’s very complicated, error-prone, and resource intensive … If you do it with RFID tags, there is very little sensor information, but it’s highly correlated with the activities you are performing.

The next task for the University’s robotics project is to add software to allow the robot to connect to the Internet and remotely take instructions or send data. That could be handy if you need to let your robot chef know you are going to be late from work.

Sure, this guy could eventually whip up a pretty snazzy meal and have it hot and ready when you get home, but I wonder if he can be programmed to say, “Bam!”

Read more at Electricpig, found via Ubergizmo.

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