WE BUILT IT
TO COOK.
IT BECAME
MORE.
It started with rice. A simple automatic rice cooker, controlled by a mobile app. Then rice and dal. Then rice, dal, and curry. With every version, we kept asking — what's actually happening here?
Most of the cooking process is pick and place. Ingredients ready, pot waiting, robot picks and adds them one by one. That insight changed everything. Instead of building an application-specific cooking machine with limited use, we built a four-axis SCARA robotic arm that can do pick-and-place — and a whole lot more.
We built a micro kitchen module. Then a counter-top version with a chef-designed recipe app. It worked. But we realised — the robot does the fun part. The tedious part (prepping ingredients) is still on the user. As a home appliance, the value wasn't compelling enough.
So we asked a different question: what's the best way to get this technology into the world? The answer was education. Sell the robot as a kit. Teach people to build it. Open source everything. Let the community take it further.