In what will go down in history as probably the pinnacle of this blog's arcing trajectory across internet-space-time, I have basically stumbled across an item which sums up my entire purpose in this blog, whilst being incredibly funny at the same time.
In this YouTube video, a robot which bakes cookies can be seen hilariously heavy-handedly stirring a bowl of ingredients and making a mess everywhere, as well as brilliantly putting the 'cookie' in the oven and shutting the door. He also gets high-fived at the end by the person tasting the finished cookie, and responds exactly as a robot would - by remaining entirely motionless.
This completely opens up the possibilities for making cakes and biscuits in hazardous environments, such as in a war zone, during a hurricane, in a radioactive fallout zone (as long as you don't want to actually eat the cake) or in the mouth of an active volcano. In fact, in the mouth of an active volcano, you wouldn't even need the oven.
For balance, I am also including a link to this Google Image Search for 'Robot Cake', since not only does this complete the collection of baking robot and robot baking, but also shows nicely the range of ways in which people interpret 'what a robot looks like'. It's mainly agreed they're rectangular, and also apparently that they mostly smile, and then colours and accessories vary wildly.
It's a shame my birthday is so far away, really. What I'd ideally like is a robot-shaped cake, baked by a baking robot. Made of cake. Baked by a robot.
