Yibot 烹飪機械人 by Yang Jinyun and Zhao Hongchuan

Yibot 烹飪機械人 by Yang Jinyun and Zhao Hongchuan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銀獎 in 家用電器設計 Competition Category.

銀家用電器· 2022

Yibot 烹飪機械人

by Yang Jinyun and Zhao Hongchuan

Client: Botinkit

A' Design Award 銀獎 Winner in 家用電器 Category

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The Design

About Yibot 烹飪機械人

Yibot係一款專為商用廚房而設計嘅智能烹飪機械人。Yibot整合咗四大模組：食材秤重、自動投料、烹調同一體式抽風系統。至少可以自動泵送八種液體同五種粉狀調味料，支援超過1000款食譜，並涵蓋炒、燉等主要烹調方式。用家只需喺觸控屏幕揀選食譜，加入食材再撳掣即可。主機採用拉絲不銹鋼製造，易於清潔而且耐用。機身設計精巧，一間廚房內可以擺放多部同時運作。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銀獎

Yibot 烹飪機械人是 A' Design Award 銀獎得主，這是授予頂級、華美而令人印象深刻的設計的極為崇高的認可。銀獎得主是極其卓越、極具創造力的作品，展現出其設計師傑出的專業技能、才華與敏銳。預計Yibot 烹飪機械人將成為一件出色的典範之作，兼具非凡的專業性與深刻的創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銀獎的設計是一項備受矚目、令人欽佩的發明，造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Yibot 烹飪機械人是一件令人羨慕的創作，它喚起渴望，帶來積極的情感，並激發驚嘆與讚嘆。

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