TOP ARTICLE - A Chinese Restaurant where robots cook and serve food!!

London: No need to tip this waiter! A sci-fi
restaurant in China has employed robots to
work as waiters, cooks, entertainers and
receptionists.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As people eat, a singing robot entertains
diners. The robots have been designed and
manufactured by a Chinese company.
Chief Engineer Liu Hasheng, said they invested
USD eight million in setting up the gen-next
restaurant.
"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.
Liu added that after a two-hour charge the
robot can work continuously for 5 hours.
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.