A London company that builds robotic kitchens, with robot arms and hands that copy the cooking movements of professional chefs.
Moley Robotics builds kitchens in which robot arms cook meals. The idea is that a 3D camera and a sensor glove record a chef's hands as they make a dish, and the robot then replays those movements to cook the same recipe. Its range has included the X-kitchen, a smart connected cooking platform that can be upgraded to a fully robotic version, and the R-kitchen, which uses two robotic arms with five-finger hands that can feel what they touch. These were developed with robotics suppliers including Universal Robots and SCHUNK. A commercial version is aimed at restaurants, catering and hotels. Its recipe library is described as holding up to 5,000 meals.
Mark Oleynik, a mathematician, computer scientist and entrepreneur, founded the company, with development beginning in 2015 and a first public showing at Hannover Messe that year. The robotic kitchen was launched at the GITEX technology show in Dubai in December 2020 and shown at CES in January 2021. The aim, as one source puts it, is to provide good food at home for people who lack the cooking skills. Mr Oleynik has also said the technology should support rather than replace the human side of cooking.
Moley is headquartered in London and trades as Moley Services UK Ltd. In late 2023 and early 2024 it opened a showroom at 16 Wigmore Street in London, open by appointment, with live robot demonstrations and cooking events. It has worked on kitchen design with the Italian design house Minotti Collezioni for about five years. A 2024 article describes premium appliances from Siemens, Gaggenau and Miele in the showroom. We could not find evidence of other UK sites.
On people, the showroom article names chefs who create recipes for the robot, including Andreas Caminada, Tim Anderson, Andrew Clarke and Kiichi Okabe, which suggests a working culture where engineers and cooks collaborate. Beyond Mr Oleynik we did not find staff names or numbers, nor a values statement, so we cannot describe the company's culture beyond that.
A business like this employs a mix of people: robotics and mechanical engineers, software developers, electronics engineers, product and industrial designers, chefs who develop and test recipes, and showroom, sales and events staff. School subjects that help include design and technology, maths, computing, physics and food technology. If you like both food and machines, Moley shows that they can meet in a career. Its website is the place to see what it is currently working on.
Website: www.moley.com
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