In the not so distant future, robots will prepare many of the meals we eat, either independently or in the role of people’s assistants. A robot or a set of them will be used to work in flexible and profitable production systems, which manage many complexities in parallel: safety, hygiene or traceability. They also allow simple and physically demanding kitchen tasks to be carried out safely and efficiently, leaving the fun and creative side of the job to the people; furthermore, they will help to reduce costs, improve and standardize quality, simplify the enterprise and reduce food waste.

With automation, the burden of heavy and repetitive tasks can be taken over by robots. Another advantage is that most autonomous systems are easy and intuitive to use, and that automation can also be directed towards ultra-personalization of supply and services. The key is to find that point of balance in the templates, where the tasks we want to entrust to robots and automation and the tasks that we will do as humans are very well defined.