A Swiss Italian team has created RoboCake, an edible robotic wedding cake that illustrates the advances in robotic food research.While the idea of creating robots that can be eaten or food that behaves like robots may seem weird, it is a real challenge for the scientific community. As part of the EU-funded RoboFood project, researchers from EPFL and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT- Italian Institute of Technology) have collaborated with pastry chefs and food scientists from EHL in Lausa...