Robo-Ramen Chef at Work in Japan

An enterprising (and apparently successful) owner of a ramen shop spent 20 million yen (just over $208K) on a robotic ramen chef. Customers place their orders on a computer in the shop, choosing their flavors, and the robot prepares the order in about two minutes. Pretty cool.

Uchida began to develop the robot at his home in around 2003, asking an iron foundry to produce the specialist parts he needed. He finally completed the robot in November last year, but suffered teething problems: ramen with no taste, and computer crashes caused by spilled soup. After repeated repairs, however, Uchida finally managed to iron out the bugs.

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