Chinanews, Shenzhen, Oct 17 – A cooking robot recently made in China was demonstrating its cooking skills to people on Monday at a press release held by its maker, the Shenzhen Fanxing Technology Co., Ltd.At the press release, the robot showed to people that it could make over 1,000 dishes with different local flavors. Give it the ingredients and press the start button and the dish can be made ready in less than five minutes. Two experts from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Cai Hegao and Wang Zicai, a Shandong cuisine chef Gao Bingyi and a Sichuan cuisine chef Shi Zhengliang arrived at the scene to judge its work.The cooking robot, called AIC (AICookingrobot) or “Ai Ke” in Chinese, was made by the Shenzhen Fanxing Technology Co., Ltd., with an investment of some 2 million yuan. The company had spent four years to make it. It was the fruit of modern electronic engineering science and Chinese cooking science. This is the first robot in the world that can make Chinese dishes, said Liu Xinyu, president of the Shenzhen Fanxing Technology Co., Ltd.The making technology of the robot has been acknowledged by the National Science and Technology Commission as a scientific achievement. Cai Hegao, one of the experts in the evaluation group, predicted that the cooking robot would have a promising prospect after it was launched in the market. The robot can boost the development of Chinese fast food industry and it demonstrates that Chinese dishes can also be made through a machine processing method, Cai said.The cooking robot may be available in the market by mid next year. It will be first used in the commercial market before entering Chinese families, Liu added.