The short answer: no robot on sale anywhere is established as cooking meals for a household. The cooking demonstrations recorded here (heating food, chopping vegetables, frying eggs, brewing espresso) come from robots that are not on sale. One robot sold in mainland China lists help with breakfast and making tea among its everyday routines.
This site has not tested any of these robots. Everything below comes from what vendors and the press have published, labelled by how well it is established.
What the task involves, and why it is hard for a robot
Cooking is one of the most varied things people do at home. In a few minutes a cook might handle a pan, a spatula, a stove knob, a fridge door, an egg and a bottle of oil, each needing a different grip and a different amount of force.1 Food changes as it cooks, ingredients are soft, slippery or fragile, and the kitchen is full of heat and sharp edges. A robot has to perceive all of that and adjust as it goes, not replay a fixed sequence.
Single-purpose cooking machines, which cook from pre-loaded ingredients inside an enclosed appliance, are a different kind of product and are not covered by this site.
What the state of the art actually is
The claims below are graded on three levels, the same ones used on every robot page:
- Shipped: the vendor says customers are using the robot for this.
- Demonstrated: shown in video, at an event or to the press, but not established in customers’ homes.
- Claimed: stated, but not yet shown.
The only shipped claims are general ones, from a robot sold only in mainland China: help preparing breakfast, and tea preparation. The specific cooking demonstrations are at the demonstrated level and come from robots that are not for sale.
Which robots attempt it
Announced, not yet on sale
- Memo (Sunday Robotics): shown brewing an espresso shot with crema. Demonstrated. Sunday is recruiting households for an invite-only trial starting in late 2026.
In a home trial in China, not on sale
- SeeLight S1 (GigaAI): according to press reports, shown retrieving food and heating it in a microwave to prepare breakfast, and chopping vegetables and frying eggs. Demonstrated, but these accounts come from the press, not from the vendor, and are marked unconfirmed.
On sale in mainland China only
- Futuring 2 (Futuring Robot): the vendor lists a morning routine including “help preparing breakfast” and an evening routine including “tea preparation”, both at the shipped level. The vendor does not describe what the robot physically does in either.
What a buyer should realistically expect today
Do not expect a robot to cook for you in the near future. What exists is a handful of short demonstrations of individual steps. Making a drink or reheating food is far closer to reach than preparing a meal from raw ingredients, and even those are not yet on sale outside mainland China.
Notes
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The Conversation (Ayonga Hereid), “Why household robot servants are a lot harder to build than robotic vacuums and automated warehouse workers”, 2022. https://theconversation.com/why-household-robot-servants-are-a-lot-harder-to-build-than-robotic-vacuums-and-automated-warehouse-workers-184227 ↩
Written from the dataset; last updated 2026-09-27.