New Delhi, July 11 – It looks like a photocopier but it doesn’t do boring xeroxes. Instead, it makes rotis – something not every woman or man, Indian or otherwise, can make without years of practice.
Meet Rotimatic, the robot roti-maker. The brainchild of Pranoti Nagarkar and Rishi Irani, this machine can pop out regulation one fluffy chapatti per minute. Inside it are 10 motors, 15 sensors and 300 parts humming away. The roti-maker costs $ 600.
Nagarkar said she created the robot after getting tired of the time it took to make rotis. and the many many things that go into making roti. The square robot is slightly more than a foot long, wide and tall. The machine is in production and will be out in 2015.
All one needs to do with the Rotimatic is put the ingredients – flour, water and oil – in the containers and dock it atop the robot. Once the containers are in place, the device heats at about 500 degrees Fahrenheit. The user has to select the thickness of the roti and oil content on a small LCD screen to get it started. Rotimatic weighs about 18 kg.
-INDIA TODAY
