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A restaurant where robots cook and serve food
No need to tip this waiter! A sci-fi restaurant in China has employed robots to work as waiters, cooks, entertainers and receptionists.
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A restaurant where robots cook and serve food
The restaurant has 18 types of robots, each gliding out of the kitchen to provide dishes, with speciality robots including a dumpling robot and a noodle robot.
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A restaurant where robots cook and serve food
As a diner walks in, one of the robots extends its arm to the side and, with a sci-fi flourish, says "Earth Person, Hello, Welcome to the Robot Restaurant", the Daily Mail reported.
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A restaurant where robots cook and serve food
After the diners have placed their order, the robots in the kitchen start cooking and once the dish is prepared, a robot waiter, which runs along tracks on the floor, carries it from kitchen to the table.
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A restaurant where robots cook and serve food
Prepared dishes are placed on a suspended conveyor belt and when the plate reaches the right table, the mechanical arms lift it off and sets it down.
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A restaurant where robots cook and serve food
As people eat, a singing robot entertains diners. The robots have been designed and manufactured by a Chinese company.
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A restaurant where robots cook and serve food
Chief Engineer Liu Hasheng, said they invested $8 million in setting up the gen-next restaurant.
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A restaurant where robots cook and serve food
"Staff in the computer room can manage the whole robot team. After the busy times during the day, the robot will go for a 'meal', which is electricity," Liu said.
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A restaurant where robots cook and serve food
Liu added that after a two-hour charge the robot can work continuously for 5 hours.
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A restaurant where robots cook and serve food
Another robot restaurant opened in Jinan in northern Shandong province in 2010, where robots resembling Star Wars droids circle the room carrying trays of food in a conveyor belt-like system.