When there’s dessert involved, most people cut a sweet treat and eat it without thinking too much about what they’re doing. But when you take a minute to consider, there’s a lot involved.

First there’s picking up the utensils. Then your brain decides how big of a piece it wants to cut, and goes about cutting it. After picking up the piece and bringing it toward your mouth, you have to aim right. Ultimately, it gets to your mouth. This is usually when the first thought kicks in and it’s something to the effect of, mmmm.

This is the process that’s shown in a recent video showing Robert “Buz” Chmielewski feeding himself a piece of sponge cake at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel. But instead of Chmielewski’s own hands and arms, it is robotic arms that is performing the work.

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