Sketch

All right, I promised a sketch of the plan, so here it is:

A couple of things to note here:

First, I'm no good at drawing. The bowl is sitting on a scale which is sitting on a conveyer belt.

Second, I realize I drew all the tubes in a line. This would not necessarily have to be the case. There could be a couple of rows of them, just as long as the rows are close enough together so the bowl only has to move forward and backward along the conveyer belt to be underneath them all--side to side motion is not an option.

Third, you can't see it because I haven't drawn it, but the tubes have covers over them that can be automatically removed so they only dispense ingredients when the bowl is in the proper place.

Fourth, I don't know how much machinery a conveyer belt requires, but whatever it is would go in the bottom cupboards. Whatever space there is left could be used for storage.

Fifth, this is only one possible option. I might have some sort of cover I could put over the conveyer belt so that when I feel like doing my own cooking (or, more likely, the kitchen-robot breaks and I am forced to do my own cooking) I can use the counter as a counter. Alternatively, the conveyer belt may take up only the back half of the counter, leaving the front half available for humans. Or, I might not use a conveyer belt at all. I might instead just put the bowl on some sort of free rolling cart, or a cart on a track.

So there are a lot of possibilities here, and I'm still exploring ideas. Obviously, this is only one aspect of it, as well. I've yet to figure out how I'm going to get things out of the fridge, do the actual mixing, chop vegetables, fry anything or use the stove, put things in the oven, etc. etc. One step at a time...

Basic Idea

The kitchen is going to be awesome. Either it or the laundry room will probably be the most like something out of a sci-fi movie. Here's the dream:

While I'm at work, I decide I want roast beef for dinner. During lunch, I text the kitchen "roast beef at six." The kitchen, which has been programmed with recipes (I don't understand how anyone can cook without a recipe), is fully automated, and has a little shopping bot it can send to the grocery store if it detects I'm out of anything, makes the roast beef and when I get home my dinner is ready!

Obviously, this is going to take a lot of work and will be done incrementally. My first thought here is that the kitchen needs to be very long, with the stove at one end rather than in the middle as is more typical. Then, the counter can be a conveyer belt, whereon will ride a mixing bowl which is on top of a kitchen scale. I'll drill holes in the bottom of the cupboards and the bottom of, for example, the container of flour in the cupboard. A tube can then feed flour out of the cupboard and into the bowl. There will be some control system set up to have the output end of the tube open or closed (I'm still working on the details of this). Then, the conveyer belt can carry the bowl from tube to tube and the scale will measure how much of each ingredient has been added, which the control system will use to know when to turn which tubes on.

Still a pretty rough concept, I know, but it's a starting point. I'm not much of an artist, but I'm going to try to  sketch this idea at some point. If I ever do, I'll upload the picture, and that will make things more clear (I hope!)