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Gordon Ramsay better watch his back as there's a new top chef in town - in the form of a robot.
The robo-chef can learn how to create the perfect dish, simply from watching cooking videos.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have programmed a machine to make a meal by following how a human makes it.
Using sophisticated AI, the robot is able to work out from every frame which objects it is looking at – such as a vegetable, hand, or knife – and how it is being used.
Over time, it is then able to identify which ingredients work best together – and even point out when the human chef may have used the wrong amount.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have programmed a machine to make a meal by following how a human makes it
Gordon Ramsay better watch his back as there's a new top chef in town - in the form of a robot
Robotic chefs have been featured in science fiction for decades, but in reality, cooking is a challenging problem for a robot.
Several commercial companies have built prototype robot chefs, although none of these are currently commercially available, and they lag well behind their human counterparts in terms of skill.
Study author Grzegorz Sochacki, a PHD student from Cambridge's Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory, said: 'We wanted to see whether we could train a robot chef to learn in the same incremental way that humans can – by identifying the ingredients and how they go together in the dish. It's amazing how much nuance the robot was able to detect.'
He added: 'Our robot isn't interested in the sorts of food
