rss feedGreetings, earthlings: Do not fear robots or the Honda video about them
I’ve joked about this before but if a robot can ever make delicious, hot, chili-laden mapo tofu – the way the cook at Old Sichuan in Kent, Wash. can dish it up – I’ll truly be impressed.
And of course, a bit perplexed.
But hey, who can complain when a dish of garlicky, spicy tofu sits before you on a blustery, stormy day with winds whipping in the sky and temperatures dropping?
Whether it’s done by ASIMO, the Honda robot, or humans, the successful making of mouthwatering mapo tofu reminds me of that saying by Deng Xiaoping, the late Chinese paramount leader:
It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white,” he was fond of saying, “as long as it catches mice.
