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January 5, 2021

Brunch with Sifted: Karakuri's robot chef

Sifted has brunch with the Karakuri DK One food-making robot. What's on the menu?


Maija Palmer

7 min read

“Will it be serving you chips?” my husband asks when I tell him I am going to have brunch with a robot, a joke which, I point out, has not been funny since 1976. If ever. My Sifted colleagues, meanwhile, were wondering if we were going to have “Dalek bread”. But no, my brunch with the Karakuri DK One food-making robot arm, is in fact a bowl of muesli. 

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