Suzumo developed the world’s first sushi-roll-making machine back in the 80′s, and is ready to mass market the SushiBot to restaurants and hungry households around the world. Of course, the machine requires human intervention in order to churn out it’s 300 pieces an hour, but the process appears to be much less labour intensive that it would be for a human. The SushiBot was unveiled at the World Food and Beverage Great Expo in Tokyo, Japan in 2012, and is said to be able to manufacture 1,000 rolls per hour which can be sliced into a total of 3,600 pieces. That is a LOT of sushi. There are several SushiBot versions, one of which only pumps out oval rice mounds (leaving chefs to top off the mound with a piece of fish), while other models are able to turn clumps of rice into flat beds, but it’s up to the human to add each layer of the roll (seaweed, fish, vegetables, etc). While we are not thrilled at the idea of replacing a hard-working human sushi chef with a high-school student who can feed the SushiBot ingredients, we admire Suzumo’s ingenuity and creativity.
0 comments: