Forget the air fryer, my ultimate home appliance is robot sandwich maker

Home LivingAppliancesKitchenAir FryersForget the air fryer, my ultimate home appliance is robot sandwich makerPutting a range of fillings between two slices of bread is something no tech has managed to replicate, until nowWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.

Putting a range of fillings between two slices of bread is something no tech has managed to replicate, until now

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Forget thebest air fryers,multi-cookersandice cream makers, the kitchen gadget I desire above all else is a fully automated sandwich maker. Not something that merely melts cheese and toasts bread but a super dextrous appliance that slices the bread, butters it, prepares the filling from raw ingredients, and delivers the sandwich of your life on a plate. It would be a spectacular piece of robotic theatre enlivening the home.

Fortunately companies like Britain’s Industrial Robotic Solutions (IRS), are working hard to create robot sandwich-making devices. I visited them in their lab on the University of Essex campus where I witnessed their prototype, called Pronto, in action.

Pronto Chief Technical Officer Rodolfo Cuan Urquizo (on the left) and Senior Robotics Engineer Antonio Rosales Medina (on the right)(Image credit: Jon Bentley)

Pronto engineers

Pronto Chief Technical Officer Rodolfo Cuan Urquizo (on the left) and Senior Robotics Engineer Antonio Rosales Medina (on the right)

(Image credit: Jon Bentley)

I’m impressed that Pronto’s engineers are adapting readily available off the shelf robots, inexpensive cameras and standard conveyor belts. I like the way the system uses AI, and the falling price of computer power and robotic hardware, not to attempt almost impossibly difficult tasks like driving a car on public roads, but to perform simpler, more routine ones, more effectively.

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I, of course, want the domestic version. I can imagine my own mini production line in a corner of the kitchen with a circular conveyor belt, pots of ingredients and a bread dispenser, plus a robot head that changes with every rotation. It would put the coffee machine in the shade.

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