Intelligent cooking robots are here. Will America warm up to them?

Imagine a kitchen where a robotic arm dices onions, a vision system judges the perfect sear, and an AI tailors meals to your gut microbiome. Autonomous cooking machines promise convenience, consistency and culinary personalization. It’s exciting to see this sort of tech on a demo stage. But how accessible is it to us?

For reasons like labor shortage and time and cost saving, markets like the US and Europe are beginning to see an adoption in autonomous cooking in restaurants. For example, Remy Robotics deployed in Paris and Barcelona, Miso Robotics has been a success with Flippy, Hyphen, and Chippy in US fast food joints like White Castle and Jack in the Box, and Sweetgreen has robots flipping salad bowls. But will US homes welcome a robot that cooks Michelin star recipes as well as grandma’s recipes to perfection, albeit at a cost?

Yes, the road to mainstream ...