Dinner in 3D

— Video by Jane Nisselson

As the Creative Machines Lab director, Professor Hod Lipson asks questions such as: Can robots ultimately design and make other robots? Can machines be curious and creative? Will robots ever be truly self-aware? Now he answers the queston “What Are You Printing for Dinner?”

“Food printers are not meant to replace conventional cooking—they won’t solve all of our nutritional needs, nor cook everything we should eat,” says Lipson, a pioneering roboticist who works in the areas of artificial intelligence and digital manufacturing. “But they will produce an infinite variety of customized fresh, nutritional foods on demand, transforming digital recipes and basic ingredients supplied in frozen cartridges into healthy dishes that can supplement our daily intake. I think this is the missing link that will bring the benefits of personalized data-driven health to our kitchen tables—it’s the ‘killer app’ of 3D printing.”

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Source Columbia University and read much more details here:
http://engineering.columbia.edu/news/hod-lipson-3d-food-printing