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Nagoya Robot Ramen

朴哲鉉 · 354.2K views · 2009-08-01 · 3:08

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Overview

A short clip of a ramen restaurant in Nagoya where robot arms cook the noodles. Human waiters serve the food.

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Used as an early, concrete example of robotic kitchen automation when HN discusses robot chefs and baristas.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2009–2017

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RoboticsCooking & food
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ramenrobot cheffood automationjapanrobot arms

What people said

Baeocystin · 2017-01 · Reference

Makes me think of that Japanese ramen shop that used similar arms from several years back. I wonder if they are still in business? [VIDEO]

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modeless · 2011-04 · Reference

Not without vision. You'd have to place all the tools and ingredients within reach at precisely known positions, probably all held in a special rig (like this: [VIDEO] ). If something went wrong the robot wouldn't know and would continue executing the recipe with possibly disastrous results. Robots won't be replacing chefs until visual feedback is solved.

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osipov · 2009-11 · Reference

This made me remember the Japanese restaurant which works on the opposite principle: robotic chefs and human waiters. Video here: [VIDEO] There is an interesting cultural dimension to Germans choosing to replace human interaction with robot interaction while Japanese choosing to replace human work with robot work.

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