This omelet-making robot chef is a sci-fi dream come true
Would we think more fondly of the Skynet robot takeover if the Terminators cooked us breakfast first? Researchers from the U.K.’s renowned University of Cambridge are putting that hypothesis to the test (kind of) by training a robot to prepare an omelet — from cracking the eggs through to plating up the finished dish. And, according to its creators, the robo-omelet actually tastes pretty darn good. “The highlight of this particular project is the ability of the robot to learn cooking differently according to humans’ preferences,”Fumiya Iida, a researcher from Cambridge’s Department of Engineering, told Digital Trends....