Closed-Loop Robotic Cooking of Scrambled Eggs with a Salinity-based ‘Taste’ Sensor

Grzegorz Sochacki,Josie Hughes,Simon Hauser,Fumiya Iida,Grzegorz Sochacki,Josie Hughes,Simon Hauser,Fumiya Iida

The sense of taste is fundamental to a human chef’s ability to cook tasty food. To develop robots that can demonstrate human-like cooking, robots need to be equipped with a sense of taste and enabled to use this perception capability to improve or understand the food which they are cooking. We propose a first study of using a salinity sensor to provide a robot with a sense of saltiness. We then de...