Universal Robots has announced a partnership with London-based robotic kitchen developer Moley Robotics.
Moley has chosen Universal Robots’ collaborative robot (cobot) arms to provide dexterity and accuracy for its first consumer robotic kitchen, which was unveiled to the consumer market on 06 December 2020.
Moley’s robotic kitchen is designed to allow users to access a wide-variety of healthy dishes. Each kitchen integrates two Universal Robots cobot arms, to allow the system to mimic human movements, and carry out a complete array of programmable cooking processes.
“I’m sure Moley’s robotic kitchen will mark the beginning of a more autonomous home life. But for us at Universal Robots, it’s been great to see our collaborative robots being deployed in such an innovative way,” said Mark Gray, UK sales manager at Universal Robots.
“The groundbreaking work Moley is undertaking really illustrates the varied capabilities of our cobots. With the right programming they can be set to any task.”
The main components of the robotic kitchen comprise robotic hands – engineered to learn from human movement – attached to two cobot arms. The system creates dishes from a database of hundreds of recipes, as well as having the ability to learn new recipes.
Mark Oleyni, CEO and founder of Moley Robotics, said: “The idea behind our robotic kitchen was to give our customers more control and freedom when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle, no matter how busy their schedule is.
“Universal Robots’ collaborative robots were instrumental in bringing this idea to fruition, as the cobots were dexterous and user friendly enough to take on the varied demands of the cooking process.”
