A cover for an automated robot includes elastic sheets that are adhered to each other in a geometry. The geometry is configured to allow the elastic sheets to expand and contract while the automated robot moves within its range of motion. The elastic sheets are attached to the automated robot by elasticity of the elastic sheets. A first group of the elastic sheets forms an elastic collar configured to grip the automated robot at a distal end and a proximal end of the cover in a non-breakable manner such that during operation of the robot, the elastic sheets hold their elasticity and integrity without breaking.

The present disclosure relates to technology that controls a robot based on brain-computer interface, and a robot control method acquires a first biosignal indicating an intention to start the operation of the robot from a user to operate the robot, provides the user with visual stimulation of differently set signal cycles corresponding to a plurality of objects for which the robot executes motions, acquires a second biosignal evoked by the visual stimulation from the user to identify an object selected by the user, and acquires a third biosignal corresponding to a motion for the identified object from the user to induce the robot to execute the corresponding motion.

A method and system are provided for automatically portioning workpieces, such as food products, by simulating portioning the workpieces in accordance with the one or more desired shapes of the final piece(s) as a directly controlled physical characteristic (parameter/specification) as well as one or more resulting indirectly controlled physical characteristics (parameters/specifications). The desired shape(s) of the final piece(s) are defined by a plurality of manipulatable reference coordinates. A workpiece is scanned to obtain scanning information, then portioning of the workpiece is simulated in accordance with the desired shape(s) of the final piece(s) defined by the directly controlled reference coordinates, thereby to determine the one or more indirectly controlled physical characteristics of the one or more final pieces to be portioned from the workpiece. The simulated portioning of the workpiece is performed for multiple combinations of directly controlled shapes as defined by the modified or edited reference coordinates and indirectly controlled physical characteristics until an acceptable set of a directly controlled shape and resulting one or more indirectly controlled physical characteristics is determined.

The present disclosure relates to a method for providing service by controlling robots within a service area and a robot implementing the method, and according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a system of providing service by controlling robots within the service area include a control server configured to receive customer information on customer seated at a table within the service area and ordered menu item information from a guide robot or a table robot disposed in the service area and transmit, to a cooking robot, the received information and cooking instruction information generated based on a situation of a plurality of orders placed within the service area and a plurality of robots.

A food processor for preparing a food includes a food preparation space with one or more devices for preparing the food in the food preparation space. The food processor also includes at least one interface for connecting the food processor to another household appliance and a user interface unit for providing user interfaces. The food processor includes a control unit for providing control programs and a communication unit for providing communication channels.

Disclosed herein is a method of controlling a robot arm to make ice cream. The method of controlling includes: receiving ice cream order information; gripping an ice cream capsule disposed on a table using the gripper of a robot arm; placing the ice cream capsule on a capsule support; gripping a cup configured to accommodate ice cream using the gripper of the robot arm; moving the cup under the capsule support while the gripper is gripping the cup; and discharging ice cream in the ice cream capsule to the cup. Discharging the ice cream includes controlling the robot arm so that the cup is rotated while the ice cream is being discharged.

The present technique relates to a cooking arm, a measuring method, and an attachment for a cooking arm, which makes it possible to easily measure an aroma of an ingredient serving as a target of cooking. The cooking arm according to an aspect of the present technique causes a suction unit to suck an aroma of an ingredient serving as a target of a cooking operation performed by the cooking arm, and causes an aroma sensor to measure the aroma sucked by the suction unit in accordance with the cooking operation. The present technique can be applied to a system kitchen having a robot function.

A satellite facility is operated in a unmanned manner even in a grain processing facility (a common grain drying and preparing facility, a rice milling factory, a food factory or the like, for example) where the characteristics of starting materials vary with time. An operation assistance system for a grain processing facility includes: a database configured to store, in a correlated manner, a first characteristic of a first grain delivered to a model facility, a first operational parameter of the model facility used in processing the first grain in the model facility, and an index value actually measured with respect to taste of the first grain after being processed in the model facility; a reception portion configured to receive a second characteristic of a second grain delivered to a satellite facility; a calculation portion configured to calculate, based on the received second characteristic and information accumulated in the database, a second operational parameter to be used in processing the second grain in the satellite facility; and a providing portion configured to provide the calculated second operational parameter to the satellite facility via a network.

The present disclosure relates to a method for providing service by controlling robots within a service area and a robot implementing the method, and according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a system of providing service by controlling robots within the service area include a control server configured to receive customer information on customer seated at a table within the service area and ordered menu item information from a guide robot or a table robot disposed in the service area and transmit, to a cooking robot, the received information and cooking instruction information generated based on a situation of a plurality of orders placed within the service area and a plurality of robots.

Provided is a method for operating an assembly for processing liquid food products, where the operation of the assembly comprises automatically executable steps and steps to be executed manually for various elements of the assembly, where machine readable pieces of information are applied to at least one of the various elements the machine-readable pieces of information identifying the respective element, where the steps to be executed manually are in a processing unit each associated with an execution status which is set to “executed” under the condition that the machine-readable pieces of information are read out at at least one predetermined element by way of a mobile terminal, and where a control device controls the automatically executable steps taking into account the execution status.