KUNSHAN,
CHINA: It's more teatime than Terminator — a restaurant in China is
electrifying customers by using more than a dozen robots to cook and
deliver food.
Mechanical staff greet customers, deliver dishes to
tables and even stir-fry meat and vegetables at the eatery in Kunshan,
which opened last week.
"My daughter asked me to invent a robot
because she doesn't like doing housework," the restaurant's founder
Song Yugang told AFP.
Two robots are stationed by the door to
cheerfully greet customers, while four short but humanoid machines carry
trays of food to the tables.
In the kitchen, two large blue
robots with glowing red eyes specialize in frying, while another is
dedicated to making dumplings.
Song told the local Modern Times
newspaper that each robot costs around 40,000 yuan ($6,500) — roughly
equal to the annual salary of a human employee.
"The robots can
understand 40 everyday sentences. They can't get sick or ask for
vacation. After charging up for two hours they can work for five hours,"
he added.
The restaurant, in the eastern province of Jiangsu,
follows in the tracks of another robotic eatery which opened in the
northeastern city of Harbin in 2012.
Rising
labour costs in China have encouraged manufacturers to turn to
automation, and the country last year surpassed Japan to become the
world's biggest consumer of industrial robots.
The cooking
robots, which have a fixed repertoire, exhibit limited artificial
intelligence, and are loaded with ingredients by human staff, who also
help to make some dishes.
But customers at the restaurant who tucked into fried tomatoes with egg, soup, and rice were thrilled with the experience.
"My children are really excited by the robots," said Yang Limei, a mother of three.
The round-headed waiter robots can only move along fixed paths, and
politely ask customers to move out of their way whenever their routes
are blocked.
"I've never seen a robot serving food before," said Yuan Yuan, nine. "I'm really surprised."
This is quite sad...
Robots are replacing manpower in resturant...
Some traditional skills will be lost...
Infact, some of our local resturants actually have robot cooks, just that most ppl dunno...
*hint: check out some of our thai resturants*
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