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Does a mapo tofu cooking robot exist? Perhaps – Look East (or West from Seattle)

posted by on 2010.04.16, under china, context, design, technology, video, wok robot, wow

Researchers in China have designed a robotic wok - capable of serving hundreds of dishes. What about mapo tofu? That remains unclear, according to a Xinhua news article. Photo source: Xinhua

I’ve said this many times: I know there are serious topics in the world today.

But since I launched this blog last year, I’ve talked about how mapo tofu – and its spicy, sweat-inducing, numbing taste – is one of my favorite foods around.

With the right amounts of garlic, chili and Sichuan peppercorn, your cold can be down on the ground in minutes.

And robots? Well, robots have found new popularity – thanks to the online world’s ability to connect homosapiens with mechanical discoveries.

Now, thanks to Alaric Bien, a friend who pointed this out, it looks like there’s a robot that can use a wok like the best chef around and knows how to whip up more than 600 dishes.

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