Kitchen Cosmo transforms everyday cooking into a collaborative experience with AI, moving beyond mere automation. This device, developed at MIT, creates personalized recipes from available ingredients and user preferences, including cooking time and mood. It utilizes GPT-4o for real-time processing of inputs without screens or voice commands, emphasizing a tactile interface. Cosmo honors retrofuturism with a nod to past kitchen technologies, particularly the Honeywell Kitchen Computer, while fostering a human-centered approach that values interpretation, creativity, and emotional context in cooking.
Kitchen Cosmo fosters a co-creative relationship between user and machine, generating personalized recipes based on available ingredients and parameters like cooking time and mood.
Unlike traditional smart kitchen devices, Kitchen Cosmo employs a tactile interface that prioritizes user experience through physical controls instead of screens or voice assistants.
The device’s novel 'Cooking Mood' dial allows emotional context to shape recipe creation, enriching the cooking experience with feelings of nostalgia or spectacle.
Cosmo's design draws inspiration from the Honeywell Kitchen Computer, critiquing the lineage of kitchen technology while successfully offering an improvisational cooking experience.
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