Meet the Ropot: Ottawa company creates 'intelligent robot cooker'

When Lu Yang finishes work and returns each night to her east-end Ottawa home, she invariably cooks using two table-top appliances — one that you’ve likely heard of and another that you almost certainly have not. 
The much better-known one is an Instant Pot, the developed-in-Ottawa, next-generation pressure cooker that in recent years has built up an enthusiastic global following and is now supported by third-party cookbooks and recipe bloggers galore. 
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