[6] In January 2016, the prototype was a finalist at the first edition of the UAE AI & Robotics Award in the international category, health sector.
[citation needed] Moley Robotic Kitchen facilitates limited human contact during food preparation and the integrated safe UV-disinfection[14] of the worktop and the air in the cooking zone to minimize the risk of contamination.
Moley Robotics captures, with an integrated 3D camera and wired glove, the entire work of a human chef and upload it into a database.
The first recipe learned by Moley Robotic Kitchen was a crab bisque created by the renowned chef Tim Anderson,[18] the winner of 2011's MasterChef UK competition, restaurateur and author of several cookbooks.
Renowned chefs, like Tim Anderson, James Taylor, Andrew Clarke, Toni Tovanen, Ivan and Sergei Berezutskiy, Nicole Pisani,[19] develop recipes for Moley Robotics culinary library.
[20] The user operates the kitchen via a built-in touchscreen or smartphone application with cooking ingredients prepared in advance and put in preset locations.