Yibot 烹饪机器人 by Yang Jinyun and Zhao Hongchuan

Yibot 烹饪机器人 by Yang Jinyun and Zhao Hongchuan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 银奖 in 家用电器设计 Competition Category.

银家用电器· 2022

Yibot 烹饪机器人

by Yang Jinyun and Zhao Hongchuan

Client: Botinkit

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 家用电器 Category

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The Design

About Yibot 烹饪机器人

Yibot是一款专为商用厨房设计的智能烹饪机器人。Yibot集成了四大模块:食材称重、自动投料、烹饪以及一体化排烟系统。设备可自动泵送至少八种液体调料和五种粉状调料,支持1000多种菜谱及爆炒、炖煮等主流烹饪方式。用户只需在触摸屏上选择菜谱,放入食材并按下按键即可。机身采用拉丝不锈钢材质,易于清洁且经久耐用。紧凑的造型使得一间厨房内可同时配置多台设备。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Yibot 烹饪机器人是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Yibot 烹饪机器人将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Yibot 烹饪机器人是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

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