CIROS Salad Bot

When a robot wields a nasty looking kitchen knife, it is not your worst nightmare come true with machines taking over the world. No sir, chances are, you have stumbled upon CIROS, a South Korean robot that was developed by the good people over at the Korean Institute of Science and Technology, where it was specially designed to provide homebound assistance, while relying on complicated algorithms so that it can identify everyday items which it crosses paths with within a home environment. For instance, in order to whip up a simple salad, it is capable of identifying and grabbing the relevant items from the fridge, is also able to serve tea, and scrub dishes once you are done with your snack.

Perhaps holding a less terrifying looking knife might be a better idea for the CIROS Salad Bot. Do you think that it is waterproof up to a certain extent, considering how it is supposedly able to do the dishes as well. Something tells me that a human will still be far ahead of robots when it comes to cooking even many years down the road, as robots have yet to hit the highs as seen in Star Wars and Star Trek sci-fi universes.

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I, For One, Welcome Our Salad-Making Robot Overlords

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Researchers from the Korean Institute of Science and Technology’s Center for Intelligent Robotics (CIR) have been working on a robot named CIROS to help around the house. Earlier versions were fairly life-like but this third-generation model, able to cut cucumbers and pour salad dressing, is positively Julia-Child-like.

He has a Kinect head and can identify common household objects and appliances. Homeboy can also load the dishwasher and pour juice, and the researchers plan to teach CIROS to cook entire meals and then clean up afterwards. Why? As populations begin to age around the world, small, portable robots like CIROS will come in handy to help grandma and grandpa hang out around the house. It doesn’t look like this boy can run up and down the stairs with a glass of wine and some dentures in its hand, but maybe that comes in generation four.

via Gizmag