The engineer who taught a machine to make rotis |
A roti, Pranoti Nagarkar likes to say, is a non Newtonian fluid—its behaviour shifts with pressure, temperature and time. That scientific itch sits at the heart of Rotimatic, the robot she conceived to automate a task millions consider both quotidian and maddening. “You don’t have perfect parameters every time,” she says. “Even humans adjust along…