Microwave Cooking Robot with Arm Manipulator

Abstract

This paper proposes a new tabletop cooking robot equipped with microwave and a arm. Conventional large cooking robots require a lot of space for installation and cannot be easily changed after installation. This problem would be solved by reducing the size of the cooking robot, but the cooking performance will be lower than with large robots. Therefore, we define the requirements for this cooking robot, and then created a prototype robot with microwave and a small arm. We show the good ability of this prototype robot through the cooking experiments for a simple recipe. The future goal of this research is to develop a tabletop cooking robot that can be easily introduced into ordinary households.