the dishwasher racks travel to the cupboards DONE.

@Jasen -- Your comment seems like the start of a good answer. Would the washed items wind up in different racks after every meal? (Meaning that the iKitchen might know where everything is, but the humans would not?) Or would lots of stuff get re-washed unnecessarily because something in their rack was needed for a meal?

different racks, possibly the cooking manipluator would be used to swap them between racks. I don't have time to prepare a full answer

If ur iKitchen is any good it must be able to call up a professional cleaning company to clean itself up... at worst it must disable all internet access unless the kids can help it!😉

@user6760 -- The point of the "self-cleaning kitchen" is that it cleans itself.

Is there any reason why your iKitchen wouldn't just be a big block with a single access hatch to take out meals and to put in dirty trays?

Whatever mechanism your kitchen uses to collect dirty dishes will work for putting away clean ones.

Ballistically, because that's the third day you haven't emptied the bin after it told you you needed to.

@Jasper if the iKitchen can manipulate ingredients and pans in a sufficiently dexterous way to cook a meal from scratch why would it not be able to load and unload a dishwasher?

Wouldn't this task be done by the same household cleaning robot that picks up your dirty clothes, makes your bed, cleans the toilet, vacuums the floors, etc? One of its tasks will be to load up the dishwasher with dirty dishes and put them away when its done.

@Johnny makes a good point. A versatile robot would be able to go where humans go and use human equipment. If you have these robots, you need a good reason to have an iKitchen as well. But if you have both - then anything the iKitchen can't do itself, the robot can do for it.

Why not put a cord on the dishes and once the people finish eating just pull them back like bowling pins?

If you get a satisfactory answer, start a company. I mean it.

@coteyr presumably it would only be able to handle recipes provided in a proprietary format which wouldn't involve "to taste". More recipes available in the recipe store. Somewhere under Settings|Advanced|More Settings|Advanced|Taste you would be able to adjust saltiness and spice levels, if the recipe supported adjustable levels.

What about the ability for me to use the iKitchen like a normal kitchen?

I couldn't find this in the answers (or write my own) but if this were being done on a large scale you could use RFID tags in the dishware. The dishwasher would sense what it has to pick up and the shapes/dropout locations could be programmed in.

@ChrisH Why would it be under Advanced|[...]|Advanced? Surely it's only one level of advancedness, because it's not technical (of technology).

@wizzwizz4 -- I suggest a simpler seasoning UI in the comments on my answer below.

Will the iKitchen also need to be usable by humans? If so, that is a VERY different design than one that is ONLY automatic.

@wizzwizz4, it should be, but you should see some of the stuff I've been working with recently. Even basic settings don't always seem quite so basic to developers. Or maybe I've just had a bad time recently with buried settings

My dad and I discuss this a lot. A robotic arm mounted to a rail on the edge of the counter.