Neo was recently featured on a YouTube cooking show preparing a steak. Neo began touching the raw steak and cross contaminating the surrounding items. Plus all the raw food products that got stuck in between Neo’s finger joints!
This video really brought home to me that we are at least a decade off from robots being able to cook with human proficiency.
Firstly the hardware design on all these humanoids isn’t practical for cooking. They need to design some type of material that can cover the hands that is resistant to microbe growth and will allow the robot to wash its hands after handling raw products. But creating a waterproof hand that can still allow the cooling of the computer components in the hands isn’t going to be easy.
Plus the robot will have to recognise instantly if a foreign object is in the food- something I highly doubt any vision system is capable of and may never be capable of.
How is a robot going to see that sliver of plastic packaging that’s fallen into the pot as the food is introduced? Or identifying a small piece of bone that has been shaven off during processing and ended up in the chicken? Just don’t see how it’s going to be possible.
Can’t see these design hurdles being conquered anytime soon. Feel we will need to utilise AI to help in designing a solution.
Maybe they will get there one day but I’m really starting to think Musk and all the others are too optimistic if they think they can create a humanoid robot capable of operating at a human level for all household tasks in five years. So much of what they say is just to get their investors excited, it gets tiring.
This is going to take a lot of work to overcome, it took Tesla 10 years to get unsupervised FSD reliable. These robot companies will need to create a vision system trained to cook without errors, that is going to be a huge undertaking especially when we are dealing with foreign objects that are so small. They will need hundreds or thousands of bots cooking for years before it’s reliable, just don’t think too many people realise the immense scale at which this has to operate to be a success. Maybe they can fast track it with the new end to end software, but it still seems like something not many people are seriously thinking about.
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This video really brought home to me that we are at least a decade off from robots being able to cook with human proficiency.
Firstly the hardware design on all these humanoids isn’t practical for cooking. They need to design some type of material that can cover the hands that is resistant to microbe growth and will allow the robot to wash its hands after handling raw products. But creating a waterproof hand that can still allow the cooling of the computer components in the hands isn’t going to be easy.
Plus the robot will have to recognise instantly if a foreign object is in the food- something I highly doubt any vision system is capable of and may never be capable of.
How is a robot going to see that sliver of plastic packaging that’s fallen into the pot as the food is introduced? Or identifying a small piece of bone that has been shaven off during processing and ended up in the chicken? Just don’t see how it’s going to be possible.
Can’t see these design hurdles being conquered anytime soon. Feel we will need to utilise AI to help in designing a solution.
Maybe they will get there one day but I’m really starting to think Musk and all the others are too optimistic if they think they can create a humanoid robot capable of operating at a human level for all household tasks in five years. So much of what they say is just to get their investors excited, it gets tiring.
This is going to take a lot of work to overcome, it took Tesla 10 years to get unsupervised FSD reliable. These robot companies will need to create a vision system trained to cook without errors, that is going to be a huge undertaking especially when we are dealing with foreign objects that are so small. They will need hundreds or thousands of bots cooking for years before it’s reliable, just don’t think too many people realise the immense scale at which this has to operate to be a success. Maybe they can fast track it with the new end to end software, but it still seems like something not many people are seriously thinking about.
Cooking With NEO Beta and Nick DiGiovanni
A behind the scenes look into the production of Nick DiGiovanni and NEO Beta's cooking challenge including BTS content and technical details.
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