Chinese cooking-robot maker Xianglu Robotics unveiled three products at the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Sunday, as it seeks to advance kitchen automation beyond rigid preset-recipe operations.
The Beijing-based company launched CookingMuse, a multimodal cooking AI model, the 3K Vision AI cooking robot and RobotCook, a mobile, automated kitchen system empowered by embodied AI.
The company said CookingMuse was trained on data collected from real kitchens and is designed to help robots respond to changes in ingredients and cooking conditions, rather than rely solely on fixed cooking times, temperatures and ingredient quantities.
"Real kitchens are never standardized laboratories," said Yang Jiancheng, founder and chairman of Xianglu Robotics, at the launch. CookingMuse can assess factors such as moisture levels, ingredient temperature and the state of food in the wok, and adjust cooking parameters accordingly, the company said.
The 3K robot, which incorporates the AI model, uses three 40-megapixel global-shutter industrial cameras to capture images of food at 30 frames per second. It can adjust heating power, cooking time, stirring speed and seasoning during cooking, according to the company.
