Tech companies are revolutionizing the kitchen with AI and cooking robots at CES 2024.
The emergence of chef-like robots, AI-driven appliances, and other advanced kitchen gadgets suggests that humans may no longer have to personally cook or prepare beverages.
At the multi-day CES 2024 trade event organized by the Consumer Technology Association, there was a lot of new in the food and beverage world. On display was a Keurig-like cocktail mixer and a robot bartender whose movements are meant to imitate a human making a vanilla latte.
Here’s the latest technology that’s changing the way meals are prepared, cooked and delivered:
ONE TOUCH IS EVERYTHING
Tech startup Chef AI unveils what it calls a “true one-touch” air cooker.
Unlike the air pressure cooker you might currently have on your kitchen counter, Chef AI’s iteration of the popular device requires no configuration changes. Just put the food in the air cooker, press start, and it detects with the help of artificial intelligence what type of food it is cooking, says the company’s CEO Dean Khormaei.
He said that an air pressure cooker would make even the worst chefs chefs.
Chef AI will be available in the US in September for $250.
YOUR OWN PERSONAL BARE SEA
What’s the secret to the perfect dirty martini? Don’t worry—Bartesian’s cocktail mixer takes the guesswork out of bartending.
Bartesian’s latest iteration, the Premier, holds up to four different spirits. It retails for $369 and will be available later this year.
Use the device’s small touch screen to choose from 60 recipes, drop the cocktail capsule into the machine and you’ll have a first-class cocktail on ice in no time.
If you prefer home beer instead, iGulu’s new automatic brewing machine allows you to brew your own beer – pale ale, amber lager or wheat beer. Just pour the pre-mixed recipe into the barrel of the machine, add water and scan the label that comes with the beer mixture. From nine to 13 days you will receive a gallon of DIY beer.
ABOUT A ROBOT BAR THAT MOVES AS YOU MOVE
Artly Coffee’s barista bot mimics the way a human behind the counter at your favorite coffee shop might prepare your regular order.
“What we’re really trying to do is preserve the art of great coffee,” said Alec Roig, a hardware developer for the Seattle-based tech startup, which now has 10 locations in the Pacific Northwest and New York.
Roig said the company’s resident barista, who is behind all of Artly’s coffee recipes, was connected to motion sensors that recorded her movements as she prepared each recipe, from packing coffee grounds into a filter to frothing milk and pouring a latte art.
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