Innovative product

RoboCook- An automatic cooking machine

This month we present RoboCook-an automatic cooking machine, as innovative product of the month. This award winning innovation comes from a school going kid who conceived the idea of automatic cooking machine after realising how much pain his mother goes through while preparing meals for the family everyday.

RoboCook comes with a display screen to select options to cook different items. It contains several boxes for different ingredients.One need to place metered quantity in the boxes suggested by the machine, upon which the machine dispenses the ingredients at the pre-set time as well as the sequence. There are different electronic recipe cards for different items, one need to just insert the specific card for the selected item.  Once the machine gets switch on, it asks to select the item to be prepared from menu in digital display; subsequently there would be display of numbering of boxes along with information about raw material which are fed in the respective boxes in suggested quantity. The machine reads the programmed card and accordingly supplies power to different input boxes at the pre-set timings. The cap of the boxes open due to magnetic repulsion and the raw material needed for cooking dropped down at their fixed timing. At the end one gets to relish the delightful recipe!

This particular innovation won the Ignite 2009 award and the National award in the Sixth National Biennial Competition.  Winning IGNITE was really special for Abhishek, because it was the first such award for him to be achieved at such a young age. IGNITE has also brought him recognition as NIF has involved professional design firm to develop RoboCook into a marketable product.