What is it?
A design process of hacking an industrial robot and a 3D printer to make and serve food.
Further description
The project let us discover a completely new face of cooking – combining the home cooking experience with the world of industry. We have proven that an automated kitchen does not have to result in mass-produced, overly processed and boring food.
My team had to design a new robot-friendly space and translate our everyday chores into a digital language.
The project was exhibited as a sequence of performances showing different food preparation processes serving specialities such as:
• Industrially themed marzipan slices extruded in a T-profile shape
• Plum mousse gently stirred with robotically whipped cream
• 3Dprinted almond cookies in customisable, 3Dmodelled shapes (taken by the KUKA robot to the oven)
• Red wine syringes served by the robot in series
My contribution
• began with sociological research and brainstorming about the electronic appliances increasingly present in our everyday life
• performed ergonomic culinary experiments one-handed (as the robot has just one robotic arm) supervised by professional cooks from local restaurants
• regularly presented concepts and mood boards
• as a part of the team, I took part in designing, prototyping, building and welding the physical, robot- oriented kitchen
• programmed the robot and visualised its movements before implementation
• managed to develop the project within tight deadlines
• took part in organising the exhibition and presenting the project in Milan 2013
Exhibitions
Arena Design 2013 in Poznań
Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan 2013
Transatlantyk Festival 2013 in Poznań
Here, at the main CNN page you can read and watch a video prepared by CNN about our project..
Project leaders: Oskar Zięta, Dorota Kabała (Industrial Design), Agata Nowotny (Sociology)
Sponsors: Amica, Lidl Poland, Adam Mickiewicz Institute
