Innovation and Inventions
All the following projects I was the primary product owner, realising the creation of the product, involving a combination of expertise, collaboration, and management.
Autonomous Kitchen System
Patented system for fully autonomous cooking
Took the product from invention to scale
See the teaser here
Culinary Engineering
Created a new mutlidiscipinary methodology for innovation.
Focusing on combining food science, food design, chemistry, software and hardware engineering, with practical chef skills and food production.
The result was a system that enable rapid product development of dishes and brands, as well as a robust R&D team that handled everything from cooking algorithms and oven functionality to package development.
Key areas:
New Product Development - Dishes, menus, brands, kitchens.
Regulatory, food safety and quality - European legislation, US legislation, and UK regulations. The first and only fully autonomous kitchen allowed to operate in NYC.
Food Design - both technical, for automation, and customer facing
Food Science and BioChemistry
Hardware specifications - working with mechatronics engineers
Software specifications and product
Package design - working with industrial design
Quality Control For Production Kitchens
Operating many production facilities around the world necessitates a way to check food quality without physically being present:
the invention is a Quality control mechanism that allows a production kitchen to produce a batch of food, predict its quality, and then check individual results.
Design of the equipment, system, and implementation.
Packaging
Packaging designed for delivery and microwave cooking.
specific materials, shape, and sealing mechanisms
A.I Quality Control
Quality control system based on machine learning, allowing autonomous systems to predict the acceptability of a food product without opening or manipulating it.
Cooking Algorithms
Cooking is artisanal work, and smart equipment can only do so much before the use of it becomes as complicated as learning to cook.
The result of this invention is a system that takes properties of a dish, the desired output of the dish, and dynamically creates a cooking method in a variety of technologies.
Algorithms for cooking based on dish properties, desired result, and time to eat.