Would you let a robot cook you dinner?

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Robots are building burgers, stretching dough in pizzerias and cooking up a media storm. Soon, they could deliver our groceries, invent recipes using machine learning and cook in our homes with arms dangling down either side of our stoves. But should they and what will this mean for the future of everyone that works in the food industry? Sheila Dillon talks to the inventor of the Moley Robotic Kitchen and the chef who taught it to cook crab bisque, MasterChef winner Tim Anderson. Find out how Tim felt being immortalised in cyber cooking history, how IBM and McCormick Flavour Solutions could be concocting a recipe for your next meal and hear whether The Guardian journalist John Harris and restaurant workers' rights activist Saru Jayaraman think robots are ushering the end of work for millions of us or could be liberating us to a life of more fulfilling careers. Producer: Tom Bonnett

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0:45.0	Turn that up a bit.
0:49.0	I hope this is good good.
0:52.0	I hope to too.
0:54.0	Yeah, we'll see.
0:55.0	Should I introduce myself in terms of my role with the robot?
1:01.0	Can you believe that? It's ridiculous saying it out loud actually.
1:06.9	It's very weird, fascinating thing to have done.
1:10.3	You were teaching a robot how to make crab bisque.
1:16.0	If you've ever seen one of those behind the scenes videos
1:20.0	of actors covered in white balls being filmed to be turned into an animated character,
1:25.9	that's sort of what we're describing here. But this isn't the latest Marvel movie with
1:31.1	chefs as saviors of the galaxy. This is a program about robots becoming
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