Cooking with Robots: Designing a Household System
Working in Open Environments
Yuta Sugiura, Daisuke Sakamoto, Anusha Withana, Masahiko Inami and Takeo Igarashi
Abstract
We propose a cooking system that operates in an open environment. The system cooks a meal by pouring various ingredients into a boiling pot on an induction heating cooker and adjusts the heating strength according to the user's instructions. We then describe how it successfully functions in a shared space with the user. First, we use small mobile robots instead of built-in arms to save space, improve flexibility and increase safety. Second, we use detachable visual markers to allow the user to easily configure the real-world environment. Third, we provide a graphical user interface to display detailed cooking instructions to the user. We hope insights obtained in this experiment will be useful for the design of other household systems in the future.
Sugiura, Y., Sakamoto, D., Withana, A., Inami, M., and Igarashi, T. 2010. Cooking with Robots: Designing a Household System Working in Open Environments. In Proceedings of the 28th international Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10 - 15, 2010). CHI '10. ACM, New York, NY, 2427-2430. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753693 [PDF][Slides]
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Cooky robots will make soup for you, won't clean up afterwards, Engadget. [Link]