Noodle-slinging ROBOT ‘Sophie’ that can serve up a dish in less than a minute shows off its skills in Singapore
- Robot dubbed Sophie can blanch noodles, add pre-cooked prawns, ladle soup
- It serves up dishes in roughly 45 seconds, with a rate of about 80 bowls per hour
- Company says bot will let chefs cut down on repetitive tasks, focus on customer
A Singaporean engineering company has built a robot that can serve up a piping hot bowl of laksa, one of the city-state’s most well-known dishes, in just 45 seconds.
The electric sous-chef, dubbed Sophie by its creators, can blanch noodles, add pre-cooked prawns and ladle spicy coconut soup — all with minimum spillage, at the rate of around 80 bowls an hour.
‘It’s excellent, I would say there’s no difference between the one created by the robot and human,’ said Paul Yong, a guest at Friday’s launch event catered by Orange Clove, which developed the machine with a local engineering company.
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The robot can blanch noodles, add pre-cooked prawns and ladle spicy coconut soup – all with minimum spillage
The robot will let chefs cut down on repetitive tasks and focus on understanding customers’ needs, said Tan Tun Lim, the assistant sales director for Orange Clove.
Sophie will cut the staffing of the laksa station from two chefs to one, whose main role will be to replenish the ingredients and keep the station clean.
Tan said the company chose to make a robot that served laksa as it was one of their most popular live station dishes.
They are also working on adapting the design to serve a local stir fried dish and prawn noodle soup.
Another local firm earlier this month said it will roll out 300 robot cleaners by March next year to help clean hotels, shopping malls and government buildings.
At the same time, drones are being trialled to inspect building facades for defects, currently a laborious manual process.
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HOW WILL ROBOTS CHANGE THE WORKPLACE BY 2022?
The World Economic Forum has unveiled its latest predictions for the future of jobs.
Its 2018 report surveyed executives representing 15 million employees in 20 economies.
The non-profit expects robots, AI and other forms of automation to drastically change the workplace within the next four years.
By 2022:
Jobs predicted to be displaced: 75 million
Jobs predicted to be created: 133 million
Share of workforce requiring re-/upskilling: 54 per cent
Companies expecting to cut permanent workforce: 50 per cent
Companies expecting to hire specialist contractors: 48 per cent
Companies expecting to grow workforce: 38 per cent
Companies expecting automation to grow workforce: 28 per cent
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