Robots in Kitchens

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Ian Daly, Just Like Mombot Used to Make: Fear Not, Huamns, These Robots Are Here to Be Your Friends. To Prove It, They Serve You Food.
New York Times, Feb. 24, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/dining/24robots.html?pagewanted=1&sq=mombot&st=cse&scp=1

My comment:
(a) The "mombot" is a neologism invented by the writer, combining "mom" and "bot" (abbreviated from "robot").

What Americans tend to say is " Just like mom/grandma used to make."

(b) Summary of this report:

Inventor ......where .....product.........................affiliation
細見 成人......Photo 1 ...takoyaki/okonomiyaki (SDA-10) ..東洋理機
Aude Billard ..Photo 2 .. Chief Cook Robot ...............LASA
Paul Rybski ...video .....Snackbot ..............Carnegie Mellon Univ.
清水 三希夫... Photo 4 ...Sushi-grabbing hand.............Squse   

(c) trail mix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_mix

(d) Fanxing Science and Technology 深圳市繁兴科技有限公司

AIC-AI Cooking Robot 烹饪机器人 (AIC is derived from AI-Cooking; 爱可 in Chinese)

AI is acronym of "artificial intelligence."

(e) Gruyère (cheese)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruy%C3%A8re_(cheese)
("a hard yellow cheese made from cow's milk, named after the town of Gruyères in Switzerland")

(f) takoyaki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takoyaki
(たこ焼き or 蛸焼, where "tako" is Japanese for "octopus)

(f) okonomiyaki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki
(お好み焼き; associated with 関西, as exemplified by Osaka 大阪)

お好み (n): choice, preference

(g) FAmen restaurant (where FA is short for "factory automation."

Nagoya Robot Ramen. July 26, 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sVOSlUn7e0&feature=related

(h) Squse スキューズ株式会社
http://www.squse.co.jp

Mikio SHIMIZU 清水 三希夫

(i) Narito HOSOMI 細見 成人

Toyo Riki 東洋理機工業株式会社
http://www.toyoriki.co.jp

(j) Aude Billard
LASA Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland
http://lasa.epfl.ch/address/address.php

LASA stands for Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory.

(k) Fritz Lang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Lang
(1890–1976; an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor; film noir)

(l) Roboexotica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboexotica
(annual)

(m) Cynthia’s Bridge Bar and Lounge
http://www.strangestbooks.co.uk/page%2025.html

Note: "got behind a bar" is different from "behind bars." The latter means being locked up.

(n) The "sous" in "sous-chef" is an adjective,
from French, preposition, literally, under;
and is defined as "being an assistant —used chiefly in titles <a sous-chef>."  www.m-w.com

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