Meals of the future
An unprecedented technological innovation in the world of food has begun.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize cooking.
The 21st century is likely to be a turning point in which food becomes a medium.
AI breakthroughs
Automobiles and electrical products are produced by machines in factories.
However, despite the fact that food is consumed by all mankind every day,
It is handmade by humans at home and in restaurants, except for processed foods.
Most of them are not automated in production.
Why is this?
The biggest reason is that food is originally a living thing, so the shape and size
It’s uneven, and it’s uniformly unwieldy.
It is also difficult for a robot to grasp soft food.
In addition, there are a lot of types of dishes, and it is produced in small quantities with a wide variety of dishes.
It’s not worth the cost.
For this reason, cooking has long been a departure from the advancement of technology.
It has been left behind.
However, in recent years, the situation has changed completely, and a wave of technological innovation has swept rapidly
Necessary.
The breakthrough was made by a cooking robot that made full use of AI.
By combining image recognition and sensor technologies with AI, small robots
It is now possible to use the arm to perform the same cooking tasks as humans.
It’s impossible to cut meat or cut fish, but restaurants and
It began to be used in food factories.
This trend is expected to accelerate globally.
In the 21st century, AI, data, and robots will bring about major innovations in food.
Productivity in industries that produce and process food will increase 100-fold in 20 years
It will improve.
Another innovative technology that is attracting attention is the “3D food printer”.
A 3D printer that molds various materials three-dimensionally with computer control
It has been applied to food.
Vegetables and fish are powdered, mixed with water, etc., made into a knead, and extruded.
When molded, you can make vegetables that taste and shape just like the real thing, as well as sushi ingredients.
There is an urgent need for humanity to end the era of mass food waste.
Dry powdered ingredients can be stored for a long time, so you can eat only the amount you need when you want to eat it.
If used, it may reduce waste due to leftover food.
Input personal data such as allergies and lifestyle-related diseases into the device to maintain health
It can also be seasoned in a useful way.
It is a device that has never been used before, outputting food from a computer to humans.
Initially, it will be about the size of a microwave oven, but by 2050 it will be as small as a lunch box.
Free from cooking
Cooking robots and 3D food printers will be for commercial use for the time being, but in 20 years
It is expected to be used at home.
Cooking is the most automated of all domestic work, and if it becomes widespread, it will be a burden on housewives
It is likely to contribute greatly to mitigation.
However, the hurdles to realization are very high.
You can’t eat the same food every day at home, so you can eat a variety of meals.
It’s useless if you can’t make it flexibly.
Another issue is how to cook the various ingredients that are used as raw materials.
It is also important to be inexpensive and not take up much space, including electricity bills.
If we solve these problems, what will happen to the table of the future?
To put it optimistically, you can leave the cooking to a robot trained by AI and
You will be able to taste food when you want to eat it.
A service that delivers food made by robots in self-driving cars has also begun.
Home kitchens are shrinking.
What is certain is that people will no longer cook for themselves.
Since the Industrial Revolution, mankind has automated many tasks one after another.
It’s inevitable that you won’t be cooking anymore.
When we spend less time on food, we have more time to spend, and we have more
As we began to think about it, technology, science, and culture developed and became richer.
I look forward to it.
The value of cooking also changes.
While home-cooked food loses its presence, it becomes a special hobby and a desire for mental healing
It should be.
With the advent of automobiles, people don’t walk much, but for a change of mood and sightseeing
I enjoy walking.
Cooking will become a similar entity.
In the field of taste, which controls eating behavior, new technologies are also being developed.
Practical application.
The reason why Volta in Italy invented the battery about 200 years ago
A spoon that applies the phenomenon of “electric taste” that has become
It is scheduled to be released.
When you put soup on it and put it in your mouth, a weak electricity flows.
By controlling this with a built-in device, the salt content in the food
A certain sodium ion is drawn to the cells of the tongue that sense the taste at once.
It is a mechanism that makes the salty taste stronger.
The saltiness of a low-sodium diet is enhanced by 1.5 times, and it is said that it can be eaten deliciously.
To have fun
The sense of taste is a sensor that detects the food necessary for life.
Acquired in the process of a long evolution.
For example, our ancestors ate fruit in the forest and drank the sugar contained in it.
Having lived as a source of energy, we prefer sweetness to taste
It feels as:
Umami indicates that the protein that makes up the body, and salty indicates that it contains salt, which is necessary for the maintenance of the body.
Bitterness, on the other hand, is a poison, and acidity is a signal of spoilage.
Humans have used these five tastes to determine whether or not they can eat a certain food.
Today, however, the sense of taste is losing its original role.
Modern people rarely notice the dangers of food with bitter or sour tastes,
It is often judged by information such as the ingredient label and expiration date of the food.
There is a lot of information about food on the Internet.
Taste was essential for survival when we were close to starvation.
From now on, it will no doubt play the role of a hobby and pastime in the same way as cooking.
Hearing is originally used to detect dangers around us.
Humans use it Mr./Ms. for music.
In the same way, the sense of taste will be used for enjoyment.
We are developing technology to transfer taste and cooking data to remote locations.
Sensors measure the taste of top-notch restaurants, and the data is used to
Send it to the device and give it the necessary flavor ingredients so that it has the same flavor at home
The idea is to spray it on ingredients and recreate professional cooking.
Radio and television have had a great influence on human culture and history.
It can be a wave of third parties in the same way.
Just as you can enjoy music and videos on the Internet, you can also download the taste
It will be the times.
It is also possible to edit the component ratio of taste like a music synthesizer.
You may be able to create an unknown taste.
If food is transformed into a medium and distributed as a creative “work”, it will become a recipe
The debate over whether copyright should be recognized will also be in full swing.
