Automated Kitchen Workspace with Robot
AssigneeHall Labs LLC
InventorsDavid R. Hall, Andrew Priddis, Josephe Blanch
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Abstract
A method of preparing meals in a computerized kitchen workspace is set forth. The computerized kitchen workspace includes one or more robots for preparing and cooking food in the kitchen workspace. Kitchen appliances may be automatically controlled according to a recipe. The one or more robots may access kitchen items necessary for meal preparation by rotating automated shelves. The meal may then be automatically prepared by the one or more robots. Automated storage shelves may be provided with electrical power for powering kitchen appliances found on the shelves.
Claims20
A method of preparing a meal comprising:
- a non-transient computer program product implemented on a processor of a computer which automatically:
- preheats a food cooking device according to a recipe;
- rotates a plurality of vertically stacked automated shelves to allow access to specific items on one or more of the shelves of the plurality of vertically stacked automated shelves based on the recipe;
- moves one or more robots to access the specific items located the one or more shelves of the plurality of vertically stacked automated shelves though an opening in a wall;
- and
- prepares the meal using the specific items, the robot, and the food cooking device according to the recipe.
A computerized kitchen workspace comprising:
- one or more robots;
- one or more food cooking devices;
- a plurality of vertically stacked automated shelves, at least one of the plurality of vertically stacked automated shelves being accessible from an opening in a wall behind a sink with a majority of the plurality of automated shelves being accessible by rotating the plurality of vertically stacked automated shelves to the opening in the wall;
- and
- a computer system, wherein the computer system controls the one or more robots to:
- access food through the opening in the wall by rotating the plurality of vertically stacked automated shelves to a food shelf location according to a recipe, and
- prepare the accessed food using the one or more food cooking devices in the computerized kitchen workspace according to the recipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.