Surprisingly, the robot can also taste food like a real chef

Machines are increasingly proving to be capable of learning everything, rapidly replacing humans at a faster rate than ever before.

Robot cooks and tastes tomato fried eggs, researched by Cambridge University

Recently, technology experts have developed a robot capable of tasting and sensing food - something previously thought impossible with machines.

Not only can the robot enjoy the finished food, but the robot can taste the food right in the cooking process like a real chef.

This is the project of a group of experts from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). The robot consists of a salt probe attached to the end of the robot arm. In the probe is a complex system of sensors to recognize different salinities, helping the robot determine the salt concentration in food.

In order not to "taste" food mechanically, the robot is taught to sense the salinity in stages, true to the process of chewing food by humans.

In other words, the taste of food will be assessed by the robot in a simulated environment exactly like when the food is in the human mouth.

Conceivably, with a tomato, just checking its parameters of sweetness and salt will not accurately reflect how it tastes. Because when food enters the oral cavity, it will be affected by many factors such as saliva and digestive enzymes, changing the taste more or less.

Tests have been carried out with positive results. The robot can accurately sense the taste, first of all, of the saltiness of some simple dishes such as tomato fried eggs.

Cooking robots are becoming more and more popular

The team continued to give the robot "kitchen assistant" a cooking session, letting the robot taste it from beginning to end during the process of making tomato fried eggs. As a result, the egg dish is seasoned very well.

Dr Arsen Abdulali - from the University of Cambridge, a member of the research team - said that is the difference between a food tasting robot and a regular salinity meter.

"The electronic test methods only check at a basic and uniform level, while we created the robot to taste food exactly like a person is chewing, just like the taste in humans," said Dr Arsen Abdulali. speak.

In the future, the team will continue to improve the robot so that it can perceive more flavors such as sweet or oily foods.

"We believe that in the future robot chefs will play an important part in busy restaurants or families," said Dr Arsen Abdulali.