There were a lot of options. The idea of having a circular menu was accepted fairly quickly, but everything else became quite a challenge.
Moley KITCHEN
The worlds first
fully robotic kitchen
Interaction design
3D design
ux/UI design
Creds control design
Interface development
Moley robotics
Moley Robotics is company developing a robotic kitchen that can automatically cook any dish from the world's best chefs.
Background story
Following the approval of the initial concept, the project expanded to include the design of a new GUI and interaction system for their first commercial kitchens, requiring a more sophisticated approach to user experience
The robot chefs that can cook your Christmas dinner
The robot kitchen that will make you dinner – and wash up too
Meet The Robot Chef That Can Prepare Your Dinner
The circular menu was convenient, but a single circular menu on a 40" screen looked small and lonely, and there was an idea: why not display a virtual kitchen on the screen? It solves the issue of filling the screen; And It turned out to be convenient.
A couple more options, and voila...
Upper part of the screen occupied with a virtual copy of the real kitchen. It reproduces every action that happens in the physical kitchen
Lower part of the screen reserved for notifications and quick access to ongoing processes.
Something like minimized tasks in operating systems.
It is possible to work with the virtual kitchen directly from the screen — to see what ingredients are in storage, where the pan or pot is, and all of that the kitchen sees and recognizes with it’s monitoring system.
It also displays data from the cooker, tap, and oven sensors. It's pretty cool.
02. Prototypes and documentation
Describe, describe, and... describe
The document that was given to us contained 40 pages of processes description. And the one we re-wrote reached 60.
There were really a lot of use cases, and each one was a little challenge for us. As an example, let's look at the flow of working with refrigerators in a virtual kitchen:
And before we’ll move to the next chapter, here are some more user-flows
Schedule cooking
Recipe preparation
recipes search/details
05. Summary
That’s all, Folks
The collaboration with Moley Robotics was more than just a project — it was an exploration into the future of home automation and a testament to the power of creative problem-solving. As we continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible, this project will always stand as a proud example of how innovative thinking and dedication can turn ambitious ideas into groundbreaking reality.
Project Management
Andriy Labunskiy