Now a Noodle Bot

Your chef may soon be a robot. In Singapore a robotics company has come up with a bot nicknamed Sophie, which is capable of making the popular Singaporean dish of laska. A piping hot bowl of this noodle soup is presented to the customer in just 45 seconds, with minimal spills. Now that’s a challenge to any top chef in the field.

The electric sous-chef handles the blanching of the noodles, adding pre-cooked prawns and ladling the spicy coconut soup at the rate of about 80 bowls per hour. A task that a human would find repetitive and fatiguing has now found the perfect solution in a robotic chef. The bot can tirelessly perform the repetitive tasks for as long as needed in the restaurant.

The robot was specifically developed for a restaurant called Orange Clove by a local engineering firm. It’s presence will reduce the number of souz-chefs for laska from two to one. Plus the human chef will now primarily be tasked with replacing ingredients and keeping the station clean rather than actual cooking.

What about the quality? This science project actually produces the same taste as that of a human chef. A customer in the restaurant on the launch of the bot said that it was impossible to tell the difference.