The 3M Vegetable Cutter was developed to be an easy, hands free and entertaining way to prepare a variety vegetables, cold cuts, or cheeses through mimicking the knife handling of a chef. It is designed as a novelty item for households with medium to large kitchens through the design is still relatively compact.
This mechanism is also a way to introduce people to robotics through accomplishing an ordinary task in an innovative way; therefore, it is designed with an open format so that the individual mechanisms that contribute to the complex motion of completing the task can be easily seen.