Cooky: A Cooperative Cooking Robot System - ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011 Emerging Technologies

http://www.designinterface.jp/en/projects/Cooky/

We propose a cooperative cooking robot system that operates with humans in an open environment. The system can cook a meal by pouring various ingredients into a boiling pot on an induction heating cooker and adjusting the heating strength according to a recipe that is developed by the user. Our contribution is in the design of the system incorporating robotic- and human-specific elements in a shared workspace so as to achieve a cooperative rudimentary cooking capability. First, we provide a graphical user interface to display detailed cooking instructions to the user. Second, we use small mobile robots instead of built-in arms to save space, improve flexibility, and increase safety. Third, we use special cooking tools that are shared with the robot. We hope insights obtained in this study will be useful for the design of other household systems in the future.

JST ERATO IGARASHI Design Interface Project:
http://www.designinterface.jp/en/

Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University:
http://www.kmd.keio.ac.jp/en/

References:
Yuta Sugiura, Anusha Withana, Teruki Shinohara, Masayasu Ogata, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi. 2011. Cooky: a cooperative cooking robot system. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Emerging Technologies (SA '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 17 , 1 pages. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2073370.2073386

Yuta Sugiura, Daisuke Sakamoto, Anusha Withana, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi. 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 (CHI '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2427-2430. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753693

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• cooky
• cooking
• human
• robot
• interaction
• system
• food
• kitchen
• recipe
• graphical
• user
• interface
• technology
• collaboration
• work
• sharing
• siggraph
• chi2010
• kmd
• keio
• media
• design

[taylorveltrop]

I really like how the GUI ties it together. And it makes a lot of sense to have the robot as an assistant, rather than trying to make the robot do everything by its self.