When he was a boy in Hong Kong, Kenny Poon loved to watch Japanese cartoons, and remembers being transfixed by a scene of a restaurant kitchen staffed by robots. “I said, ‘I’m going to open a kitchen ...

In slow movements, each gunmetal gray robot grabs a towel by its corners, flattens it out, folds it twice, and deposits it ...

Building the Automated Kitchen was a fascinating panel at the Food On Demand Conference, and not just because Flippy, Sippy and other neato robots are taking over unpleasant tasks while allowing human ...

Robot waiter brings a plate of food to a restaurant table - Ira Lichi/Shutterstock You might love a Rosie the Robot in the house to cook and clean as she did in the Jetsons' home, doing all the ...

(CBS NEWS) - It’s long since been the vision of Hollywood that robots and humans would be side-by-side. In some Hollywood films, this partnership is a recipe for catastrophe, but in this suburb not ...

Right now, robots are used to flip burgers, fry chicken, create pizzas, make sushi, prepare salads, serve ramen, bake bread, mix cocktails and much more. AI can invent recipes based on the molecular ...

Meet Flippy. Starting in 2021, this tireless fry-station specialist toiled in 10 Chicago-area locations of White Castle, America’s first fast-food hamburger chain. Working behind a protective shield ...

WATCH: Visit the Dexai robotics lab, where local engineers are working to bring robot chefs to life. If the future of restaurants will involve robots, then it’s being cooked up in Boston. Two separate ...

Humanity has quite the death wish. We are certain of this for a variety of reasons, but none speak to our Freudian compulsion for self-destruction more than our species’ insistence on continuing to ...

Automating food is unlike automating anything else. Food is fundamental to life – nourishing body and soul – so how it's accessed, prepared and consumed can change societies fundamentally. Since ...