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Chapter 1: Who is the better chef: humans or robots?
Robots are becoming more and more like humans. They can build cars, clean your house, and even do parkour. But in this video, I'm cooking against three levels of robots to find out who's the better chef, robots or humans.
For level one, Mark Rober will be the judge. We're going to see if Nick can beat some of the most basic kitchen robots that money can buy. In level one, we'll have five speed rounds. Chopping, stirring, toasting, pizza making, and cleaning. And to win, it's a classic best three out of five. Are you team robot or team Nick? I mean, of course I am team robot.
For this first mini round, we'll be testing chopping skills. And in the robot corner, we've got the Roboku. It's basically an extremely powerful food processor with a couple of googly eyes to boot. I like putting googly eyes on my robots. Are you ready, Nick? Let's do this. Start. No? I said start, yeah. I'm taking my time, I'm not worried. Oh. How many do you want me to put in, Nick?
I mean, you're team robot. That's true. That feels like a good start. Oh no! That's so fast! Oh my god. I didn't even have the time to put it under. This seems so unfair. Look at that. They're like, Before you actually judge, let's look at our cuts. Yours aren't even real cubes. Those are like rectangular prisms. I mean, this is like laser precision.
As a chef, do you want smaller cubes like that or bigger? I mean, it takes more skill to make smaller cubes. I rule in favor of our robot overlord. For speed round number two, we're going to be testing your stirring skills. You will be facing off against an army of five stirring robots, once again with googly eyes.
They are very cute. Thank you. Because stirring just one pan wouldn't be much of a challenge, we each have five pans, but there's just one of me and there are five robots. We're going to be stirring pine nuts, which are expensive and burn really easily.
So the first person to burn their nuts loses. That doesn't sound great. Okay, here we go. Time to turn on the robot army. And as soon as I start smelling and especially seeing burnt pine nuts, somebody's losing. This seems a little unfair again. I don't know. So we're getting good spinning, but the problem is it's just spinning in place and not going to every edge of the pan.
Also, I think like two googly eyes have dropped into the pan. That feels like a definite points off situation. I have seen you spill a few nuts, and I don't love that, Nick.
Yeah, but your robots aren't even touching the nuts. I actually think I might win this challenge. I'm actually going to do something the robots can't do and switch my pans around to kind of keep things even as well. And the robots, they just don't have arms.
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Chapter 2: How does Nick compete against basic kitchen robots?
Is that how you actually make toast at home? Yeah. You're so fancy. At the end of this round, I will judge the winner based on looks and taste. Here we go. Oh, wow. Bread, English muffin, waffle, bagel. Hey, do your thing. Don't look over here.
And start. Oh, there it goes. So the key to making a nice slice of toast, Mark, while your toaster just slowly takes its sweet time over there, I like to quickly hit both sides of the toast right away. And you have to be very gentle. You don't want to press into the toast. Wait, why tweezers? I'm cooking against a $500 robot.
It's all about precision. Okay, how are we doing here? Oh, it's browning. Oh, I feel like I smell and see smoke, though. Oh. It's a countdown now, seven, six, five. Yeah, where's your countdown? Come to papa. Oh wow, okay. Actually that is pretty exact.
The key with toast is to make sure that the outside is nice and crispy while the inside stays nice and light and fluffy. This is a butter knife, right? No. Oh my gosh, look at that.
Oh wow, that looks like grilled cheese. I'm even gonna get the sides. Why don't you do that, toaster? I'm nervous about this one. You're putting a lot of chef's kiss in that. So that I can be a very impartial judge, I'm gonna close my eyes, and it's just the one bite challenge. You know the rules. Mark, I'm gonna shuffle them around. Okay. So number one. Can you do like an airplane sound?
That makes me wanna cry, it's so good. Can we just do one more bite at number one before we move on? Sure. And with the airplane sounds. I didn't know toast could taste so good. Number two. I'm not doing airplane. By comparison, this is just like a wet sock. Number one by a nautical mile. Number one was me. Wow. Okay. Well, I finished eating this. The score is now humans two, robots one.
For speed round number four, we're going to see who can make the best pizza. Man versus robot. And this is a doozy here. All I have to do is load in the sauce. Now I just gotta add in some cheese. Put my dough right there. I haven't even started. All right, here we go. It's scanning the pizza. Look at that laser scan. Sauce goes on. Now right here is where it's putting the pepperonis on.
It seems super unfair. Wow. Put that in the Louvre. Honestly, how many pizzas I can make in the time it takes you to make one, Nick? I'm still just rolling out my dough. Well, I'm over here laser scanning pizzas. Not only are you taking forever, but you're also making a mess. Luckily, round five deals with cleaning up messes. Do you need any help? Do you know how to make a pizza? I do not.
At this point, I'm just trying to finish my pizza before Mark makes number four.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Nick face in the speed rounds?
Yeah, sabotage. Robot, where are you going? No. I think I'm ready for the final verdict. Well, given that we were tied heading into this round, Nick, whoever won this cleanup round wins all of level one. And after looking at the results, the winner for all of level one between robots and humans is... The human! Yes! Nick! Congratulations!
I am sorry, Mark, because I know you wanted robots to win. I did. Deep down. I really did.
Robots, don't let me down in level two. You got this.
For level two, I'll be cooking against MOLY, the world's first fully robotic kitchen. I'm kind of scared. It took 10 years of research to make this robot, and it can recreate movements of a professional chef and has over 5,000 recipes uploaded to its memory. We're going head-to-head to see who can make a better pasta dish, and at the end, a blind taste test will determine who wins this round.
Before we start cooking, I'm going to choose the recipe that Molly's going to make today. And since we're doing pasta, I'm going to go with a spaghetti puttanesca. I just found out that this is a kill switch, so if he starts beating me, I'm just going to whack him. It's time to find out if Moley's really worth that $100,000 price tag. And here he goes.
First things first, it looks like he's turning on the cooktop. Oh, we're going for the olive oil. Good start, Moley. Now it's grabbing some olives, anchovies, some garlic, some capers. Sometimes I feel like Moley's just doing fancy movements to flex on all of us. What? He's using a spatula?
Moley's scraping the bottom of the pan right now, making sure all those nice little flavorful bits aren't sitting there and burning. The more I watch right now, the more nervous I'm getting about this competition. Thinking about pressing the red button. It just tapped, and now he's scraping off the extra ingredients on the spatula. This is unbelievable. And in we go with the tomato sauce.
And he's gonna mix it all up. Here comes the pasta. Oh, come on, with the tap. That just seems like you're rubbing it in. Some of that pasta is sitting above the water right now, so I'm wondering if Moley's gonna do anything to make sure that that goes under the water. Okay, at this point, you have to wonder if the robot just heard me say that, or maybe it's just really that smart on its own.
So I'm guessing right now that Moly has it down to an exact timing. And I'm thinking right now that this might be the most perfectly cooked pasta I have ever seen in my life. Oh, you missed the noodle, Moly. Let me help you. It's very well cooked. This here seems like the final step, just throwing in these herbs. So after one last wipe of the spatula, it looks like the dish is complete.
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