Miscellaneous

Check out the latest technology trend in Japanese dining.

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Robot Restaurant: Robots cook, serve food themselves in China.

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A restaurant in China has started serving food that's been prepared by robots. The owner of the eatery in the Heilongjiang Province came up with the idea as a way of cutting costs.

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A hot pot restaurant in northwest China has recently started using a robotic waitress to serve meals, attracting curious diners.

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Meet the robobartenders of BarBot, an annual showcase of robots designed specifically to mix drinks and serve them on command. From whiskey dispensing droids to steampunk-themed servers, we sample the libations from these mechanical mixologists.

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Cookie Vending Machine - Customers select a cookie type. The robot then gets a random cookie of the chosen type, warms it up, and delivers it to the customer.

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jst.go.jp/erato/igarashi/en/projects/Cooky

We propose a cooking system that operates in an open environment. The system cooks a meal by pouring various ingredients into a boiling pot on an induction heating cooker and adjusts the heating strength according to the user's instructions. We then describe how it successfully functions in a shared space with the user. First, we use small mobile robots instead of built-in arms to save space, improve flexibility and increase safety. Second, we use detachable visual markers to allow the user to easily configure the real-world environment. Third, we provide a graphical user interface to display detailed cooking instructions to the user. We hope insights obtained in this experiment will be useful for the design of other household systems in the future.

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Service robots in the field – a robot and two barkeepers successfully mix cocktails as a cooperative human-robot team at the Stallwachter-Party 2015 in Berlin.
Robot HoLLiE uses its two anthropomorphic 5-Finger-Hands (SCHUNK SVH) to grasp cocktail glasses and fill them with various ingredients. The left and right robot-arms moved independently.
During the Stallwachter-Party in Berlin on 9 July 2015, HoLLiE mixed two different cocktails: “Bramble Fizz”, a gin based fruit cocktail, and “digit.HoLLiE”, a whisky long drink with lemonade. The recipes were created by Gregor Scholl, Phum Sila-Trakoon and the team from the bar “Le Croco Blue” in Berlin. HoLLiE assisted the human barkeeper colleagues for more than 7.5 hours and mixed more than 280 cocktails. Thanks to the use of fast and reliable industrial light-weight arms and an improved motion control system, some cocktails were ready after 61 seconds.
The guests ordered their drinks via tablet-computer. Then, the robot mixed the cocktails and informed the guests when the ordered cocktails were ready. Besides, HoLLiE asked its barkeeper colleagues for help when there were no more empty glasses or ingredients.
Besides the great taste of the cocktails, the human-like 5-Finger-Hands definitely were a highlight of the demonstration. HoLLiE demonstrated that a robot can successfully perform dexterous manipulation tasks in a complex and difficult environment that is originally not suited for robots. Researchers at the FZI had developed the drivers for the SVH robot hand, which reliably grasped even wet glasses in spite of smaller drops of liquid on its fingers.

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The robot which bakes pancakes.
Maker Faire Tokyo 2015.

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This machine allows me to mix a single cookie and vary the recipe for each cookie on the sheet. Hence, I can test many different recipe variations with one batch of ingredients in one afternoon.

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At Thailand's most original Japanese restaurant, the service is fast, friendly and extremely efficient - that's because two high-tech robots do most of the work. (June 14)

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