AI-cooked steak, Prada space suits, agriculture starts with a bang

Artificial intelligence is already used in many walks of life and now engineer Suraj Sudera has applied it to cooking the perfect steak.

After studying engineering at Aston University in the UK, Sudera worked on medical devices before turning his attention to grilling. In 2020, he founded the Birmingham-based start-up SEERGRILLS, which is about to release their first AI-inspired product.

Called Perfecta, it contains infrared burners that can cook up to 900 C, and uses AI to calculate the time and temperature needed to cook the food based on its size, surface area and fat content. “We noticed there is often difficulty and inconsistency in cooking food; it’s mostly always overcooked and dry, taking a long time,” notes Sudera. “So, we decided to use our skills and knowledge to apply AI to cook the perfect steak and set up SEERGRILLS.”

Perfecta is now available to pre-order in the US but being able to cook the perfect steak in less than three minutes won’t come cheap – at $3500, it won’t just be the mouth that is watering.

Space style

 The Italian luxury brand Prada has annouced that it is helping to design space suits for NASA’s Artemis III Moon mission, which is currently planned for 2025. Prada will work on the suits together with Axiom Space, with Prada bringing its expertise with materials and manufacturing to the project.

Yet designing new suits won’t be easy. “Although Prada may conjure up images of glamorous space suits, there is a much more serious side to the way in which space suits are designed,” warns mathematician Emma Horton from the University of Warwick.”Comfort, warmth, durability and protection from the radiation are all critical factors. Astronauts must be able to move easily, maintain body temperature and contain an oxygen supply.”

And finally, an international group of scientists have claimed that agriculture in Syria started thanks to a coment that exploded in Earth’s atmosphere some 12 800 years ago.

Writing in the journal Science Open: Airbursts and Cratering Impacts, they say that the explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra to adopt agriculture to boost their chances for survival.