They've been used to create everything from coat hangers and instruments to cars and cups and clocks, and a number of engineers have been working to develop them as virtual chefs.

它們已經被用來製造從衣架、樂器到汽車、杯子和時鐘的一切東西，一些工程師一直在努力將它們開發成虛擬廚師。

This is easier to do for food that still has to be cooked afterwards, like breadsticks or ravioli than something that's already hot and ready to eat.

這對於事後仍需煮熟的食物，比如麵包條或餛飩，比起已經熱乎乎的可以吃的東西，更容易做到。

But the U.

但美國。

S University has been experimenting with the cooking process in an effort to make three D printed food something you can machine yourself at home.

S大學一直在嘗試烹飪過程，努力讓三D打印的食物成為你可以在家裡自己加工的東西。

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Try to imagine what your kitchen will look like in 10 years.

試著想象一下10年後你的廚房會是什麼樣子。

You might have an extra appliance that it doesn't have today, and that would be, ah, food printer.

你可能會多出一個今天它沒有的電器，那就是，啊，食品打印機。

Or maybe it would be a sexier name for it, but it allows you to do things you can't do today.

或者，也許它的名字會更性感，但它可以讓你做一些今天做不到的事情。

It's easy to dismiss three D printing food as a novelty, but at Columbia's Creative Machines Lab, they're predicting that your future kitchen may have a three D printer.

人們很容易把三D打印食物當作一種新奇的東西，但在哥倫比亞大學的創意機器實驗室，他們預測，你未來的廚房可能會有一臺三D打印機。

Right now, what comes out of the machines isn't cooked.

現在，機器裡出來的東西還沒有熟。

So the teams trying to figure out the best way to cook food as it prints Why do you need to incorporate lasers into three D printing of food?

所以，試圖找出食物打印時烹飪的最佳方法的團隊為什麼要將脈衝光融入到食物的三維打印中？

So lasers offer you much higher resolution with cooking as opposed to conventional cooking methods, like using an oven but a laser.

所以，相對於傳統的烹飪方式，如使用烤箱但脈衝光，脈衝光能為你提供更高的烹飪分辨率。

It gives you that accuracy and the resolution and precision you need, because now it's a pinpoint of energy that you can control where it goes to show me how this works.

它給你提供了你所需要的精確性和分辨率和精確度，因為現在它是一個能量的針尖，你可以控制它的去向，告訴我這是如何工作的。

This guy's just browning the top, and it only cooks about just under a millimeter of dough on the top, which doesn't sound like a lot.

這傢伙只是把麵皮烤焦了，而且只烤熟了麵皮上一毫米不到的麵糰，聽起來並不是很多。

But again, if you think about how these how this will be used on a three D food printer, you're only laying it out about a millimeter two of food, so you only really need to cook 1 to 2 millimeters.

但是，再一次，如果你想想這些如何這將在三D食品打印機上使用，你只鋪設了大約一毫米二的食物，所以你只需要真正煮1到2毫米。

It's the start of turning three D food printing into a consumer product we're talking about, like printing like Google.

這是我們所說的把三D食品印刷變成消費品的開始，比如像谷歌那樣的印刷。

A lot of people have this kind of misconception that this is sort of Frankenstein food, right?

很多人都有這樣的誤解，認為這算是科學怪人的食物吧？

Its's doesn't seem so appetizing ingredients that you put into a food printer our flour water.

它的似乎不那麼開胃的成分，你把食品打印機我們的麵粉水。

It's kind of like E having your own chef in a way that really knows everything that your body wants.

這有點像E有自己的廚師的方式，真正知道自己身體想要的一切。

That's this magical combination of having sort of a personalized chef but also having it relatively low cost and made on the spot.

這就是這種神奇的結合，有種個性化的廚師，但成本也相對較低，而且是現做現賣。

I think when when I talked about people about footprint and the first thing is like Oh, you know, way make a cake, or can we make a You know, some carrots like Sure, you could do those things, But what would you want to do that when you have a machine that could pretty much make any combination of flavors?

我想，當我跟人們談起足跡的時候，第一件事就是喜歡哦，你知道，做蛋糕的方式，或者我們可以做一個你知道的，一些胡蘿蔔一樣，當然，你可以做這些事情，但是當你有一臺機器，可以做任何口味的組合時，你會想要做什麼呢？

Thanks so much better than just like playing carrots.

謝謝這麼多比只是喜歡玩胡蘿蔔。