Sophie the robot whips up oodles of Singapore noodles in just 45 seconds
Sophie the robot whips up oodles of Singapore noodles
A Singaporean engineering company has built a robot that can serve up a piping hot bowl of laksa, one of the city-state's most well-known dishes, in just 45 seconds.
The electric sous-chef, dubbed
Sophie by its creators, can blanch noodles, add pre-cooked prawns and ladle
spicy coconut soup -- all with minimum spillage, at the rate of around 80 bowls
an hour.
"It's excellent, I would say
there's no difference between the one created by the robot and human,"
said Paul Yong, a guest at Friday's launch event catered by Orange Clove, which
developed the machine with a local engineering company.
The robot will let chefs cut down
on repetitive tasks and focus on understanding customers' needs, said Tan Tun
Lim, the assistant sales director for Orange Clove.
Sophie will cut the staffing of
the laksa station from two chefs to one, whose main role will be to replenish
the ingredients and keep the station clean.
Tan said the company chose to
make a robot that served laksa as it was one of their most popular live station
dishes, but they are working on adapting the design to serve a local stir fried
dish and prawn noodle soup.
Another local firm earlier this
month said it will roll out 300 robot cleaners by March next year to help clean
hotels, shopping malls and government buildings, while drones are being
trialled to inspect building facades for defects, currently a laborious manual
process.
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