The food and beverage technology product news coming out of this year’s CES is no less impressive than in previous years with products ranging from a smart cooker that uses Ohmic heating for quick food prep to a new refrigerator that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and image recognition to tells consumers what they can make based on the ingredients they have on hand.
Follow along with Electronics360 to see some of the food and beverage technology debuting at CES 2024.
Sevvy
Cooking and baking technology manufacturer Sevvy is introducing CES 2024 attendees to its Sevvy Smart Cooker, an appliance that uses pulsed electric field-based and Ohmic heating technology for fast food prep at low temperatures.
Source: Sevvy
According to its developers, the Sevvy Smart Cooker, which is a CES 2024 Best of Innovation award winner in the home appliance category, uses 90% less energy to cook than traditional ovens and cookers. This is accomplished via integral heating wherein electrical currents are passed through the food instead of heating the food from the outside, which is what occurs with conventional ovens.
FrazyBot
Frazy, a custom beverage startup, has debuted at CES 2024 what it calls a “world’s first” robotic beverage machine that delivers café and bar quality beverages in the home with just the push of a button.
Source: Frazy
According to Frazy, the robotic beverage machine can prepare drinks — including coffee, cocktails, tea and boba — from end to end using FrazyBot's "Ingredient-Sensing Robotic Technology (InSeRT)."
Yo-Kai Express
Yo-Kai Express, a maker of food prep robots — specifically, a hot ramen making bot — has debuted its boba making robot at this year’s CES.
According to its developer, the robotic boba maker features a cooking pot within the appliance, which enables it to autonomously cook the pearls of tapioca that are trademark of the boba drink.
Bunafr
Seattle-based coffee tech start-up Bunafr, has introduced its intelligent coffee roasting appliance to attendees of CES 2024.
Source: Bunafr
The fully automated, smoke-free home coffee bean roaster features technology like multiple bean temperature sensors, real-time roast control technology, first crack detection and climate control, according to the company.
Coldraw
Coldraw, a botanical brewing tech company, has brought to CES 2024 its botanical brewing tech that uses ingredients such as tea leaves and herbs to create non-alcoholic beverages for so-called “sober-curious” consumers.
Source: Coldraw
The Coldraw botanical brewing technology is the CES 2024 Innovation Award Honoree in the Food and AgTech category.
Samsung Electronics
Tech giant Samsung Electronics has introduced its 2024 Bespoke 4-Door Flex Refrigerator with AI Family Hub+1 at this year’s CES.
Source: Samsung Electronics
Using a combination of image recognition and AI — or "AI Vision Inside" — the refrigerator can reportedly identify roughly 30 different types of fresh foods within the refrigerator. According to Samsung, the combination of AI and image recognition tech enables the refrigerator to guide users about what to cook based on the ingredients that are on hand.
TechMagic
Tokyo-based company TechMagic has introduced what it claims is the world’s first cooking robot to attendees of CES 2024.
Already declared the CES 2024 Innovation Award winner in the robotics category, the I-Robo, which has already served roughly 100,000 meals in Japan where it was trialed, is expected to address labor shortages in restaurant kitchens around the world.
According to TechMagic, the I-Robo features functions such as cooking automation, automatic seasoning and a self-cleaning frying pan.
For more on I-Robo, watch the accompanying video that appears courtesy of TechMagic.
Nuvilab
Food waste analysis and nutritional insights firm Nuvilab is bringing an enhanced version of its AI Food Scanner, which was originally introduced at CES 2023, to CES 2024.
As an enhancement to its 2023 technology, Nuvilab has presented its new Care Manager solution, which uses AI technology to track diets and help manage chronic diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes.
Nuvilab's AI Food Scanner 3.0, now features an array of information via its Kitchen Manager and Hall Manager solutions. According to the company, this feature offers solutions such as managing leftover food waste, catering to user meal preferences, offering menu suggestions and delivering custom nutritional healthcare solutions to clients.
Keep checking back with Electronics360 for the latest coverage of the CES 2024 tradeshow.
The tradeshow is being held Tuesday, January 9, 2024, through Friday, January 12, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
