Every time I see an article about cooking, my first instinct is how I can code this information so machines can cook it for me.
But there's still so many unsolved problems at the moment, especially around object recognition. Maybe in a few decades.
Once that's solved, I imagine there will be a lot of engineers tinkering at home with their robots, sharing code for say cooking the perfect steak, the best coffee, and a general recommendation engine that can predict what you'll probably like.
Can't wait. I don't get excited about cooking, but coding cooking machines gets me going.
my first instinct with cooking is to experiment with tweaking variables like salt, heat, etc and see how many different outcomes you can get. unfortunately I hate waste so I don't experiment very much. this is one of the things that drew me away from hardware and towards software: you can test anything, as many times as you want, scrap everything and start over, and all it costs is storage and power. anything physical costs storage and power too, but with the added cost of a lot of waste
You can buy "bean to cup" coffee machines, and the high-end models are fairly programmable. It's a single purpose robot, sure, but if you want a fully-automated cup of coffee with minimal human interaction, this is obtainable today.
But there's still so many unsolved problems at the moment, especially around object recognition. Maybe in a few decades.
Once that's solved, I imagine there will be a lot of engineers tinkering at home with their robots, sharing code for say cooking the perfect steak, the best coffee, and a general recommendation engine that can predict what you'll probably like.
Can't wait. I don't get excited about cooking, but coding cooking machines gets me going.