Speed pancake stacking robots
So, how many pancakes can you stack per minute? What about those little round scotch pancakes that aren't like the ones you make on Pancake day, but are still called pancakes and you buy them in the shops and sometimes they taste of lemon? Is it more, or less, than 450? Well, if it's less than 450, stand in awe of this amazing robot which not only identifies which randomly strewn pancakes are on top of all the other ones, but also grabs them using some kind of amazing pancake lifting method, and then neatly stacks them into two adjacent piles, ready to be packaged up and sent to the shops. Enjoy this video of FlexrPickr, and in particular the informative captions.
Robots still better than me at flipping pancakes
Even this adorable clumsy disembodied robot arm can flip pancakes better than I can (I mainly resort to a spatula-based technique incorporating a large amount of hoping to invert my creations). In this video, a man first teaches it the action of flipping a pancake (and yes, people have tried that with me but with no success) and then gives it a chance to try flipping the pancake itself, with hilarious yet increasingly successful results. It apparently takes [spoilers] 50 goes at flipping the pancake before it is successful.
The trailer for short circuit
To round off this post, I'm putting the trailer for Short Circuit, one of the many awesome robot-based films, purely because the trailer contains the amazing bit (around 0:46) where he attempts to make breakfast, and gets pancake batter everywhere in a nostalgic Short-Circuit-remembering moment which makes me feel as gooey inside as an undercooked pancake. Pancake pancake pancake.
