CHICAGO---If you think your flapjack making skills are unbeatable then I suggest you sit down because some tough high-tech competition is on the horizon. Feast your eyes on the Pancakebot which for $299 is built to both construct and cook grilled morning treats with robotic precision.

Brunch with a side of cyber

An impressive contraption that's one part 3D printer and one part electric griddle the Pancakebot is no ordinary automated maker machine. Typical gadgets like this, Makerbot's Replicator is a classic example, extrude melted plastic layer after layer to slowly compile a fully three dimensional object.

By contrast, the Pancakebot sports a reservoir of wet batter attached to its mechanical printing arm. Underneath sits a flat electrically heated cooktop which serves as the canvass for the robot's creations. It also transforms the shapes and patterns Pancakebot squeezes out into golden and delicious designs.

Butterflies, dinosaurs, and astronauts are all possible pancake designs. Tyler Lizenby/CNET

So just what sort of things can Pancakebot cook? At the IHS 2015 show in Chicago I personally observed the device make pancakes in complex forms of butterflies but other examples include t-rex dinosaurs (my personal favorite) and astronauts. Of course the people touting the appliance's abilities say that the sky's the limit. Since the gadget can also use multiple cake batter colors, more complicated designs are possible. For example we were able to have the machine replicate an edible version our CNET logo.

Print unconventional pancake shapes even logos with Pancakebot. Slim Geransar/Storebound

Outlook

If you're eager to hook your kitchen up with its very own Pancakebot be ready for a wait. The people who plan to bring the device to market (Storebound) expect to sell the appliance by fall of 2015. Backers of the product's Kickstarter project, however, might be able to receive units ahead of standard shoppers.