Cooky makes you miso soup

  Did you know that the proper way to make miso soup is to boil the water then put miso in, but NOT to return to a boil after you put in the miso? Well, you can program Cooky to do just that, or anyway you want to do it. How neat!

 A project by the Robotic Life Project at the Keio University Graduate School of Media Design. The main person behind it is Yuta Sugiura (who by the way is also the son of Tomio Sugiura, well-known for developing Dynamizer and other humanoid robots).

 To copy the objective of developing Cooky:

"We propose a cooking system that operates in an open environment. The system cooks a meal by pouring various ingredients into a boiling pot on an induction heating cooker and adjusts the heating strength according to the user's instructions. We then describe how it successfully functions in a shared space with the user. First, we use small mobile robots instead of built-in arms to save space, improve flexibility and increase safety. Second, we use detachable visual markers to allow the user to easily configure the real-world environment. Third, we provide a graphical user interface to display detailed cooking instructions to the user. We hope insights obtained in this experiment will be useful for the design of other household systems in the future. "