Yibot 調理ロボット by Yang Jinyun and Zhao Hongchuan

Yibot 調理ロボット by Yang Jinyun and Zhao Hongchuan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銀賞 in 家庭用電化製品デザイン Competition Category.

銀家庭用電化製品· 2022

Yibot 調理ロボット

by Yang Jinyun and Zhao Hongchuan

Client: Botinkit

A' Design Award 銀賞 Winner in 家庭用電化製品 Category

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The Design

About Yibot 調理ロボット

Yibotは業務用厨房向けに設計されたインテリジェント調理ロボットです。Yibotは食材の計量、自動投入、調理、一体型換気装置という4つのモジュールを統合しています。少なくとも8種類の液体調味料と5種類の粉末調味料を自動でポンプ供給でき、炒め物や煮込みといった主要な調理法をはじめ1000種類以上のレシピに対応します。ユーザーはタッチスクリーンでレシピを選び、食材を投入してボタンを押すだけです。本体は清掃が容易で耐久性に優れたヘアライン仕上げのステンレススチール製。コンパクトな形状により、一つの厨房に複数台を設置することが可能です。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銀賞

Yibot 調理ロボットは、見事で印象的なハイエンドのデザインに授与される、非常に権威ある評価である A' Design Award 銀賞の受賞作品です。銀賞の受賞作品は、きわめて輝かしく創造性に富んだ作品であり、デザイナーの傑出した専門知識、才能、洞察力を示しています。Yibot 調理ロボットは、素晴らしい代表作であり、驚くほどプロフェッショナルで、深く革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銀賞を受賞したデザインは、非常に注目すべき称賛される発明であり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に寄与し、それを前進させます。Yibot 調理ロボットは、多くの人に羨まれる創造物であり、欲求を呼び覚まし、前向きな感情をもたらし、驚きと感嘆を灯します。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This cooking robot includes 4 modules, which are raw materials weighting and automatic dispensing, cooking module and an integrated ventilator. At least 8 liquid and 5 powdered seasonings can be pumped, enabling possible more than 1000 recipes from all over the world that cover all major cooking styles such as stiring, frying and stewing. What is more,given compact design, more than 1 cooking robot can be placed inside a traditional commercial kitchen.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 542.5mm x depth 790.2mm x height 528.1mm
Tags: kitchen, intelligent, precise, food, cooking, professional
Production Technology: The main body is made of stainless steel. Bent and brushed, it is pretty easy to clean while simultaneously increasing robot durability. We used cutting stainless steel for the sides so as to reduce our costs, an anti fingerprint layer was coated on the surface, too. The rotary knob is die cast aluminum alloy, with eight gun ceramic sandblasting and anodizing to increase the touch. The electronic scale module on the screen is made of AG frosted glass, and the metal nameplate is engraved with laser.
Design Challenge: Standardization of Chinese cooking, simplified operation and modularized hardware, all three are combined to make this robot happen, bringing about customers an unprecedently smarter, faster and safer cooking experience.
Research: For making this intelligent cooking robot, we visited 114 different restaurants, investigating how our meals were made. By interviewing chefs and observing the detailed standard operating procedure SOP they followed while cooking, we translated this body language via e-tongue, e-nose and other sensors, successfully establishing a quantitative system to analyze how heating and seasonings affect the food taste, texture and flavor.
Inspiration: We are deeply inspired by the natural sunrise and sunset. Similarly,the opening and closing of this robot exactly indicates our constant need that enjoying the food. This robot is such a rebel for a traditional Chinese kitchen, where cooking is so frustrating and hard for standardization.
Project Duration: The project began in Shenzhen in January 2021 and was completed in Shenzhen in March 2022.
Operation Flow: Once someone would like to use this robot, she can directly choose her favorites from the touchable screen. She would be guided to put all ingredients she wants and simply press button. Surprisingly, no matter how much input ingredients the robot has detected, it automatically decides how much seasonings would be needed and how the heating adjustment should be involved. Upon finished, this robot can rotate itself to output a delicious meal. The integrated ventilator keeps running during the entire operation, she even does not have to worry about cleaning.
Team Members: Yang Jinyun
Zhao Hongchuan
Luo Liling