Product line-up varies depending on season. Please contact us for further details. Suzumo created it's first Sushi robot in 1981, today they have several different machines that can make up to 4000 sushi pieces in just one hour. These Stockings With Pre-Painted Toe Nails Are All the Rage in Japan Right Now The Fine Art of Japanese Wood Planing: Shaving Thin Slices of Wood Japanese Hospital Gives Prospective Surgeons Shockingly Difficult Tryout Tests! More Definitive Proof That Japan Runs on Nightmare Fuel Five Years After a Nuclear Disaster, Fukushima's Transformation Is Stunning Proof That Japan is the Craziest Place on Earth A Tour Through Japan's Epic Ice Village Bunny Island: The Mystery Behind Japan's 'Rabbit Island' The Bizarre Story of WWII Soldiers Who Refused to Surrender Even After the War EndedJAPANESE motorcycle, defense, and robotics company, Kawasaki, has produced a robot that could end up being your new favorite kitchen appliance – a sushi-assembling robot.

Kawasaki opened a robotics showroom earlier this month in Tokyo, called ‘Kawasaki Robostage’, in which they demonstrate their robots’ capabilities – which includes assembling sushi, apparently. The sushi-bot can assemble the tasty morsels in seconds, but does not appear to be able to do any prep work, such as shaping the rice or slicing the fish. jiro dreams of sushi craftsmanSo it looks like sushi masters don’t yet need to worry about robots taking over a skill that takes 10 years to learn.jiro dreams of sushi calgary SEE ALSO: WATCH: Taiwanese PhD student creates flash tattoos that let you control your phonemaiko sushi menu pdf The machine comprises of two arms, one charged with holding pre-shaped sushi rice steady while the other squeezes a tiny dollop of wasabi from a tube on it, and then, using a vacuum attachment, carefully places the prepared topping on the rice.jiro dreams of sushi indir

The other arm, which at this point seems rather lazy compared to the other, then places the completed sushi onto a wooden block. Kawasaki’s bot isn’t the first in its field – Sushi Robo, by robotics and machinery company Suzumo, debuted in 2012, boasting it can roll out 3,600 pieces of shaped sushi rice in an hour. jiro dreams of sushi apprentice seattleIf Suzumo’s preparatory robots join forces with Kawasaki’s assembly bot, sushi chefs would really have something to wring their hands about.livro sushi marian keyes online There has been plenty of innovation in terms of food-making robots – from 3D-printed pizzas to bartenders – but while robotics can help with efficiency, a sushi-bot takes away from the distinctive ‘specialness’ of having sushi prepared by a real person.

However, some sushi fans seem pretty excited about the possibility of having a sushi machine in their kitchens: brb ordering a sushi robot for my kitchen …what do you mean these aren't for my kitchen https://t.co/6ix7iqhn2K — Ashley Esqueda (@AshleyEsqueda) August 16, 2016 I do love sushi. — David Quesada (@DQuesada) August 18, 2016 I want a sushi-making robot. No, that's not true. — Aimee Ogden (@Aimee_Ogden) August 13, 2016 — Cisco Manufacturing (@CiscoMFG) August 12, 2016A visit to the deep sea cafe - Kagaku With dozens of crustaceans bustling over displays and food, this cafe knew how to stand out in one of the most trendy neighborhoods in Tokyo.   Inside the Shinkai Cafe (Deep Sea Cafe) in Tokyo From February to last Sunday, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) opened a special cafe inside major department store Tokyu Hands in Shibuya.  In an area most famous for attracting teenagers and young adults to its shopping malls and night life, JAMSTEC certainly chose the right place to promote its science to a new crowd.  

I decided to go and check out this limited-time-only cafe last week, although I admit it took some courage to leave my apartment.   First, with my jeans and sweater look, I was clearly out of place in Shibuya surrounded by girls wearing the latest … 24 metronomes in synchronisation - Kagaku It has been known if you put several metronomes (set to the same frequency, or same number of ticks per minute) on a movable platform, then no matter how out-of-sync you set them up to be at the beginning, eventually all of the metronomes will tick at the same time in the same direction.   A team of engineers at Saitama University, just outside of Tokyo, lead by Professor Tohru Ikeguchi decided to do an experiment with 24 metronomes.  All of them are placed onto a board which hangs from a solid frame by pieces of string.  You can see one of the researchers setting off each metronome quite randomly.  After two or three minutes, they are (pretty much) in synchronisation.   I’m not a metronome expert, but what I do know is that when one metronome’s pendulum …

World’s first smartphone for senior citizens - Kagaku Jul 24, 2012 • With an advanced touchscreen, big icons, automatic sound adjustment during phone calls in noisy places, is waterproof, has an 8 megapixel camera, and a 4-inch display, the Raku-Raku Smartphone F-12D is getting ready to hit shop shelves in August in Japan.   The smartphone was developed by Fujitsu and will be sold by Japan’s largest mobile phone operator NTT Docomo.  Shops started taking preorders for the Raku-Raku Smartphone F-12D last Friday (raku-raku is the series name for mobiles developed by Fujitsu for first time mobile users or senior citizens, which could also refer to the Japanese word for easy or effortless).   Smartphones are big business in Japan.  In November 2011, MM Research Institute in Tokyo had reported just under 43 million mobiles were shipped out to shops in 2011, and about half of those were smartphones.   In order to get ahead of … World’s tallest tower becomes Tokyo’s new icon - Kagaku

May 25, 2012 • The world’s tallest tower Tokyo Skytree opened to the public this week.  The broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower uses some of the latest technologies developed by Japanese companies. I read a story outlining a few of the highlights, and here they are: Control device at tip: At the top of the tower (634 metres up) is a vibration control device which detects and balances out movements the tower makes in the wind to millimetre precision.  It also does not need electricity. Strong antenna: The tower’s antenna will not budge in winds blowing up to almost 400 km/h. Super elevator: An elevator developed by Toshiba takes 50 seconds to transport people from ground level to the observation deck 350 metres above.  It’s 10 times faster than the average apartment building’s elevator, and each elevator fits 40 people. Earthquake resistance: Central shaft made … What to do with 20 million tons of debris - Kagaku Apr 27, 2012 • Piles of debris I saw during a trip up north in Miyagi prefecture in March 2012 Tidy piles of rubbish line the north-eastern Japan coastline where there used to be towns.  

The question is, what can you do with so much stuff? The tsunami which hit Japan’s coast on March 11 last year destroyed houses, shops and entire communities, condensing it into more than 22 million tons of debris.  To get a better picture of how much that is, it would take the people living in north-east Japan a decade to generate the same amount of household rubbish. Just before the one year anniversary of the Japan’s devastating earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, I had the opportunity to go up north to see the place for myself.  Around sea level, everything had been wiped out.   Sushi robot with top speed of 3300-sushi-per-hour - Kagaku Apr 05, 2012 • Spinning, pressing, chopping, and precisely-arranging sushi at speeds man could not achieve is the way for one Japanese manufacturer. Sushi-making robots are on display at a food business expo in Tokyo this week, including a shari robot (shari is prepared sushi rice) and a norimaki robot (norimaki or makizushi is sushi usually wrapped in seaweed, and it’s the most common sushi I’ve seen sold in shops throughout New Zealand).

The SSN-FLA and TRS-FMA robots made by food machine manufacturer SUZUMO are capable of making 3300 shari sushi every hour. Then there is SUZUMO’s SVR-NVE norimaki robot, which can be programmed to make 400 thin sushi rolls, 300 normal sushi rolls, or about 280 thick sushi rolls every hour. SUZUMO has an English website if anyone is interested at looking at their product range. A trip to the doctor in Japan - Kagaku Following a visit to my tenth doctor since moving to Tokyo, I think I have seen enough to give an insight into how different it is from seeing a doctor in New Zealand. To get an idea about my medical past, firstly, I was born in New Zealand.  A Plunket nurse came to check up on me when I was a baby, the immunisation nurses pricked my arm when I was at intermediate, and then at university the nurses told me about the things I could catch as an adult if I wasn’t careful.  But for most of the 25 years I spent around the lower North Island I went to one doctor, a GP who lived about 15 minutes from my house in Palmy.

I’ve been living in Tokyo for two years now, and yesterday I went to see my tenth … Bonobo apes look for injured ape - Kagaku Mar 19, 2012 • For the past year in Japan, there’s been a big emphasis on unity following the Japan Earthquake.  Helping a friend in need.  I came across an interesting story in the Yomiuri Shimbun suggesting humans aren’t the only ones with this ability or emotion. Japanese scientists from Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute studying Bonobo apes in Congo saw something totally new in their behaviour.  A search party of 15 bonobos traveling a long distance to find a bonobo who had been injured from a trap a day before. The bonobo got his fingers trapped in a trap set up by locals to capture wild boars.  He managed to break away from the trap but the snare was still clasped around his fingers.  Seven of his fellow bonobos surrounded him, tried to help him remove it, and licked his injured fingers. A $1.5 million fire experiment to test whether school buildings are safe - Kagaku

Feb 24, 2012 • Spending more than a million dollars on building a school and then burning it down doesn’t sound logical, but to a group of Japanese scientists it sounded very logical. These scientists wanted to test how fire-resistant school buildings made from wood were, and the only way to do so was to build their own three-storey high school and burn it down.  They needed to test whether there would be enough time for students to evacuate from the building in the event of a fire, how could the fire spread, and how long could it take for the entire building to collapse. It’s all part of a process to help re-build the forestry industry.  There’s growing support for wooden buildings in Japan, but the problem is the rules for building a three-storey public school are so strict … Hayabusa movies might be a plus for science - Kagaku Feb 14, 2012 • Over the weekend, the second of three films (four if you include a documentary originally made for planetariums that was later released on the big screen) about the spacecraft Hayabusa opened in movie theatres across Japan.