Robot capabilities
Can humanoid robots cook?
No general-purpose humanoid cooks in a home; the robots that cook today are narrow kitchen appliances. No general-purpose humanoid cooks a meal in a home on DEPLOY's record. What verifiably cooks today is a narrow appliance: Miso Flippy, a fixed-station fry robot, which DEPLOY holds as a reviewed record with a verified deployment. Humanoids from Figure, 1X, and LG appear in staged kitchen demos, attributed to their makers, but those are demonstrations, sometimes run with a remote human operator, not a deployed cooking capability.
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Not in the way the question usually means. If you are picturing a humanoid that walks into your kitchen and cooks dinner from scratch, no robot on DEPLOY's record does that, and no maker has a shipping product that does.
What verifiably cooks today is narrow and specialized. DEPLOY holds Miso Flippy as a reviewed record: a vision-guided robotic arm that fries and grills at a fixed station in a commercial kitchen, at commercial maturity, with a verified deployment. It is a genuine, deployed cooking robot, but it is a single-purpose appliance bolted to one station, not a humanoid, and it does not plan or prepare a meal.
Humanoids are the machines people picture, and they do appear in kitchen demos: Figure has shown its Helix-powered robot loading a dishwasher, 1X markets NEO for kitchen chores, and LG demonstrated a CLOiD humanoid fetching milk and putting a croissant in the oven at CES 2026. Every one of these is a staged demonstration or a product claim, and in NEO's case independent reporting found the home tasks were run with a remote human operator in a VR headset. An industry writer covering the field put it plainly: humanoid robots are coming, just not to cook your dinner yet.
So the honest answer is that cooking, as a general home capability, is an absence on the record: demonstrated in videos, attributed to the makers, but not deployed. The one thing that verifiably cooks is the narrow commercial appliance. Everything here is dated and sourced.
What actually cooks today
Read live from DEPLOY’s reviewed registry. One narrow commercial-kitchen robot cooks today; no humanoid cooks a meal in a home on the record.
| Fact | Status | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| What actually cooks today A narrow commercial-kitchen fry robot, not a humanoid. DEPLOY holds Miso Flippy by Miso Robotics as a reviewed record: a vision-guided robotic arm that fries and grills in a commercial kitchen, at commercial maturity, with a verified deployment. It cooks one narrow set of tasks on a fixed station. It is a deployed appliance, not a humanoid that cooks a meal. | On the record | Jul 26, 2026 | |
| General-purpose humanoid cook No humanoid cooks a meal in a home on the record. DEPLOY holds 107 reviewed humanoid models. None carries a verified home-cooking deployment. Humanoids appear in factory and logistics pilots on the record, not as a home cook, so the cooking answer is an honest absence, not a claim. | Not on the record | Jul 26, 2026 | on the record |
Staged humanoid kitchen demos
The kitchen clips you have seen are here, each attributed to its maker and dated to its source. Every one is a controlled demonstration or a product claim, not a deployed capability.
| Demonstration | Status | Who (attributed) | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1X sells NEO for home kitchen chores, but the demos used a remote operator. 1X markets NEO for household work including loading the dishwasher and tidying the kitchen. Independent reporting found the home tasks NEO performed for a reporter were run with a 1X employee in a VR headset remotely operating the robot, not autonomous cooking. It is a product claim with a teleoperation caveat, not a verified capability. | Claimed, human-assisted | 1X Technologies (product page), reported by Fortune | Feb 26, 2026 (as reported) | |
Figure 02 loaded and unloaded a dishwasher in a Helix demo. Figure released video of its Helix-powered Figure 02 humanoid loading and unloading a dishwasher, a kitchen manipulation task. The coverage stresses it is a carefully controlled demonstration on a set-up stage, and questions how the robot would fare in a messier real kitchen. It is a demo, not a deployed cooking capability. | Controlled demo | Figure (Helix demo), reported by Futurism | Feb 1, 2026 (as reported) | |
LG's CLOiD humanoid showed a breakfast-prep demo at CES 2026. At CES 2026, LG demonstrated a household humanoid, CLOiD, retrieving milk from the refrigerator and placing a croissant in the oven. LG presented it as a prototype in its Zero Labor Home concept, a staged showcase, not a shipping product you can buy and cook with. | Staged demo | LG (CES 2026 demo), reported by Interesting Engineering | Jan 6, 2026 (as reported) |
Why the answer is no, for now
Each column is attributed to who holds the position. What verifiably cooks is narrow; what the makers show is staged; and the honest bottom line is that no humanoid home cook sits on the record.
A narrow commercial appliance
The one thing DEPLOY verifies as a deployed cooking robot is Miso Flippy: a fixed-station fry robot in commercial kitchens. It cooks a narrow set of tasks, and it is not a humanoid.
Staged humanoid kitchen demos
Figure, 1X, and LG demonstrate humanoids loading dishwashers, fetching milk, and putting food in the oven. Those are controlled demos and product claims, and 1X's home tasks were run with a remote operator.
No home cook on the record
No general-purpose humanoid cooks a meal in a home on DEPLOY's record. Cooking, as a home capability, is an honest absence: demonstrated in videos, attributed to the makers, not deployed. DEPLOY records it when it is verifiably in the field.
How we know this
This answer reads DEPLOY's reviewed registry live for what actually cooks today (the Miso Flippy record and a count of the humanoid models DEPLOY tracks), and cites the maker's own demo or product page for each staged humanoid kitchen demonstration. Here are the sources behind them.
Miso Flippy is a verified, deployed commercial-kitchen appliance on the record, not a humanoid. The humanoid kitchen clips are demonstrations and product claims, attributed to their makers, and some were run with a remote human operator. DEPLOY holds no home-cooking humanoid, and says so rather than guessing.
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