Cool food data transmission project scans real food and “prints” them onto your plate【Video】

Ambitious project aims to teleport delicious sushi right in front of you.

Ever since 3D printing became a thing, mankind has speculated if there’s a way to replicate food in both tastes and looks. After all, that piece of hyper realistic-looking chicken wing might as well be a piece of decoration if you can’t eat it, right?

And now Team Open Meals aims to use that technology to usher in a new era of experiencing food. The concept revolves around a sushi chef making a piece of mouthwatering sushi which gets scanned and subsequently replicated at another location using their revolutionary Pixel Food Printer.

▼ The future of food is here.

So how will it work? Scanning food is a relatively simple process, but recreating it is what the team is currently pouring all its efforts into.

Like its namesake, the Pixel Food Printer stacks tiny 5-millimeter cubes of colored, flavored gelatin in the shape of scanned food. Ultra-precision machinery ensures that all the cubes go to the right places.

▼ Here’s a video of an experiment using acrylic cubes.

▼ With professional showmanship coursing through its wires,
the robot flourishes a cube for audiences to examine.

After assembling the acrylic pixel sushi, the incredibly polite robot sets down a mock cup of green tea and gives the dish a gentle push towards the customer before giving one last bow.

What a courteous machine! Why, if I had a robot child, I would send it to Team Open Meals for education without a second thought.

▼ Unfortunately, the slippery texture of actual gelatin cubes
is a bit of a challenge for the machine.

Sure it may feel like you’re munching a bunch of cubes right now, but the team hopes to one day shrink the cubes to 3 millimeter and 1 millimeter sizes for more accurate reproduction.

Although it seems like a page out of a science fiction novel, perhaps one day humankind will be able to print out delicious pizzas or delectable desserts shared on social media.

Japan is already a master at duplicating food in plastic form, and with Team Open Meals spearheading their ambitious projects, such futuristic dreams could very well turn into reality.

Source: OPEN MEALS, FOOD BASE, ウェブ電通報
Images: YouTube/Team Open Meals

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