Kitchen technology's advancing to a point that we as children only dreamed about while we watched "The Jetsons" growing up, and there's a wide variety of new inventions set to make life easier when it's time to cook - including, most recently, an actual robot chef!
In the past, Food World News has reported on some of the latest inventions that'll mark the trend for cooking in the future, including a microwave oven with a heat map that allows users to see when their meal's cooked, a new smart stove and even a pepper grinder that turns off gadgets around it during a meal - but the robot chef is a whole other ballpark!
According to Pop Sci, the new robot chef was recently introduced by Moley Robotics at the Hannover Messe, which is basically a huge trade fair held in the German city annually to show some of the biggest new things in industrial technology.
This invention in particular basically makes your kitchen look like Iron Man's, as it involves a pair of robot arms that can easily cook your dinner after you've taught him how - it'll be basically like having your own chef at home!
The Next Web reports that the robot chef's arms are "human-sized" and move around with 129 sensors, 24 joints and the ability to learn how to cook by watching a human do it - some truly amazing technology!
The robot chef's full name is Shadow Robot, and it's currently being trained by one of the United Kingdom's top chefs, Tim Anderson, who was the champion of the 2011 Masterchef challenge.
"It's the ultimate sous-chef," Anderson said to BBC News. "You tell it to do something - whether it's a bit of prep or completing a whole dish from start to finish - and it will do it. And it will do it the same every single time."
The robot chef's still just a prototype, and Moley, the guys behind it, still want to make a few adjustments, including a built-in fridge and dishwasher - a true dream come true by 2017!
