One Million Euro Grant to Create Robot to Stir Soup

I see that a team of British scientists have somehow managed to scoop a one million euro grant to create a robot which can stir soup.

I must confess I had thought that technology had come a bit further than this.

After all haven't we created robot planes to fly over enemy lines spotting Osama Bin Laden? (ok, ok, bad example)

In the story linked to above it says the robot must understand that the goal is to create soup.

If we're getting into the understanding by artificial intelligence of philosophical questions of that magnitude, where will it all stop?

Will we have kitchen droids contemplating the endless conundrum: "If the universe is infinite and god is also infinite.....would you like some oxtail, sir?"

I await the next huge European project - "Can we create artificial intelligence capable of putting the correct amount of sugar in tea?"

And to think we're worried about the Chinese technology boom taking industry away from the EU - with projects like that I'm sure our supremacy is assured.