It can chop, stir, sauté, and more -- just like a human |
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"Our robots re-create the whole process of cooking a meal the way a chef would prepare a meal," says Mark Oleynik founder of Moley Robotics. "The same ingredients, the same appliances, the same cookware, the same timing, the same temperatures, all the same parameters. It needs to be done in a very, very reliable way, because if you have a sequence of 25 operations and just one of them fails, the whole dish fails as well."
This is what Oleynik said makes Moley different from the countless robot demonstrations that have seen robot arms prepare food. Robot arms are typically great at any task they have to repeat multiple times. That could be anything from helping with assembly on a factory line to, say, placing a piece of produce in a frying pan, waiting a minute, and then flipping it over or removing it altogether.
But the versatility needed for a robot arm to execute every step of a recipe is something else entirely. It takes it from a mono operation machine designed to perform predefined tasks to, well, a cook. |
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Don't let CES fool you. These pandemic gadgets aren't going to save us |
It was as predictable as the sun rising in the east. Long before the show even started, we knew this year's CES was going to be less about self-driving cars and giant TVs and more about personal safety.
The pandemic – not to mention the fact that this year's show was completely virtual – practically demanded it. And you didn't have to look far to find new takes on masks, air purifiers, and other gadgets that are meant to protect people. The only problem? A whole bunch of those products were crap.
That's not a new thing at CES. The crap-to-quality ratio is almost always tilted in the wrong direction. That's just what happens at a show with tens of thousands exhibiting companies. But it was particularly noticeable this year. Many of the COVID-focused gadgets at CES 2021 were either blatant cash grabs or items with dubious protective/safety qualities. |
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe begins a new chapter this week with WandaVision, the first project to debut from Phase Four of the studio's interconnected superhero saga, and the first major MCU release since 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Home.
Set after the cataclysmic events of Avengers: Endgame, Disney+ series WandaVision brings back Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as Avengers teammates and romantic partners Wanda Maximoff (aka The Scarlet Witch) and Vision, respectively. The pair find themselves living an idyllic suburban life -- straight out of classic TV sitcoms -- but soon find their perfect existence unraveling in bizarre ways.
It has been well over a year since Endgame and Far From Home arrived in theaters, so there's a good chance that a refresher (or possibly, a recap) on certain elements of the Marvel universe could be of service to fans looking forward to WandaVision. With that in mind, here's everything you need to know about Wanda and Vision heading into their new Disney+ series. |
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