Android Restaurant in China

It is 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 greets customers, deliver dishes to tables, and even stir-fry meat and vegetables at the eatery in Kunshan, which opened last week.

It seems very strange to see robots cooking and serving foods instead of humans, but it is reality. These robots are made on Android platform and are controlled by different technologies. Two robots are positioned at the door to cheerfully greet customers and 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 make dumplings.

The founder of the restaurant Song Yugang said that each robot costs around 40,000 Yuan ($6500) roughly equal to the annual salary of a human employee. It shows the future to this world i.e. Man vs. Machine. The restaurant, in the western province of Jiangsu, follows in the tracks of another robotic eatery, which opened in the northeastern city of Harbin in 2012.

Rising labor 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 that also helps to make some dishes. Customers at the restaurant that tucked into fried tomatoes with egg, soup, and rice were thrilled with the experience. The round headed waiter robots can only move along fixed paths, and politely asked customers to move out of their way whenever their routes are blocked. This advancement in technology has replaced humans from the work and machines are generating profits for businesspersons.

Day is not far when people will see terminators in reality!