Multi-purpose smart rice cookers

A rice cooker comprising:

• a first chamber configured to hold food items;
• a second chamber including multiple compartments placed below the first chamber, wherein a respective compartment of the multiple compartments is configured to store a respective type of food item;
• wherein the first chamber comprises multiple gates configured to transfer food items to each of the compartments of the second chamber
• a cooking chamber placed below the second chamber through a conduit;
• a camera positioned to view food items stored in the first chamber;
• and
• a processing system configured to:
• cause the camera to capture one or more images of the food items in the first chamber;
• provide the captured images as an input to one or more machine learning models, the one or more machine learning models configured to classify a type of the food item;
• distribute the food item to a respective compartment of the second chamber based on the classified type of the one or more machine learning models;
• determine a mixture of the respective types of food items stored in the second chamber with a predetermined ratio;
• and
• select a cooking mode based on the determined mixture of the multiple types of food with the predetermined ratio of the type of food.