The robot staff in the cafe brought coffee without spilling a drop.

To the restaurant to order a dish, not long after, a robot holding the plate slowly arrived, using electronic synthesis to remind: "your order has arrived, please take it!" This scene doesn't appear in science fiction movies.

Here is your order. Please take it.

The owner of the post-80s coffee shop introduces 8 robot employees.

Silly cute to order food and deliver food

The coffee brought by the robot does not spill a drop.

Ask where it comes from, and it will answer, "I'm from outer space."

Ask him why his face is so fat, and he will laugh.

Our reporter Jiang Shenmin

To the restaurant to order a dish, not long after, a robot holding the plate slowly arrived, using electronic synthesis to remind: "your order has arrived, please take it!" This scene doesn't appear in science fiction movies. These days, a coffee shop on Xinxin Road, Xiaoshan City, Hangzhou, has joined by robot employees.

Little robot dancing

Robot delivers food to welcome guests

At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Qian Bao reporter came to this restaurant. As soon as he entered the door, he saw that in the coffee shop, five white robots about 60 centimeters high had spread their arms and lined up.

With the music of "Little Apple" playing, the five robots dazzled and danced in unison. This made several children watching so happy that they bounced and swung their bodies together.

There is also a blue-and-white robot about 1.5 meters high near the front desk of the coffee shop. In the distance, there are two robots holding plates, moving in the coffee shop.

"of the three big ones, two are food delivery robots and one is a welcome robot. The small five are dancing robots. " The staff in the store introduced the reporter to the vacant seat at the same time. In the nearly 1000 square meters of the restaurant floor, has now laid a circle of black tracks, from a distance looks like a black tape. These strips of tape are the optical magnetic strip induction tracks that the food delivery robot relies on.

Robot delivers food

Don't spill a drop of coffee

Qian Bao reporter immediately ordered a coffee and a simple meal, and soon the front desk staff put the coffee on a plate in the hands of a food delivery robot. Then, the robot slowly began to move along the track, about 30 seconds, moved 10 meters, came to the reporter's position to stop.

The robot turned around and a synthetic voice came out of its round head: "Hello, your coffee is here. Please take down the meal." The reporter noticed that the coffee cup filled with 8 cents was not spilled. After taking off the coffee and simple meal, the robot turned around and moved slowly to the front desk.

If it were not for the busy figure of more than a dozen clerks in the store, this scene would be like being in a science fiction movie.

The owner of this coffee shop, Ms. Xu, is a young post-80s generation. When she talks about these special employees in the store, Ms. Xu can't help laughing and even saying "very interesting".

Ms. Xu's coffee shop has been in operation for less than two years. More than three months ago, Ms. Xu invited the first wave of robot staff, five dancing robots.

"there are so many guests in our store that we want them to have a program where they can get together to dance and have fun. of course, it is also to make our store a little different." Ms. Xu said that in fact, she is also a young man, and she likes this kind of interesting things with a sense of the future.

Dancing robots have received a good response, and Ms. Xu has introduced three more robots from Shanghai. This is not, just arrived the day before yesterday, just started the trial yesterday, let a lot of customers in front of the eyes bright.

"not to mention that the little niece was so happy to see it. I thought it was very novel." Ms. Wang, who came to dinner, praised the food delivery robot and even said that she would recommend it to her friends when she went back.

Ms. Xu said she wanted robots to be a feature of the coffee shop in the future. "I have noticed before that a robot cost hundreds of thousands of yuan in the past two years. On the one hand, it is too expensive, and on the other hand, the function is not as smart as it is now. Even the battery could not be used for too long before, but now it can work for at least eight hours on a single charge. "

A robot costs tens of thousands of dollars.

The serving speed is only 0.3 meters per second.

Two food delivery robots, and a welcome robot, all look the same. The blue-and-white shape, the round head contains a LED display screen, and the overall curve can even be seen as "female".

Unlike a dancing robot, however, the round lower body shape replaces the legs of a simulated human, and underneath is an electric-powered universal steering wheel.

On the LED screen of "face", the smiling face is displayed by LED light, and when "speaking", the smiling face will be converted into the action of opening. For example, if two food delivery robots encounter personnel or obstacles on the way forward, they will say, "Please avoid, thank you."

"after all, robots are far less flexible than people, even if they are smarter than before." Ms. Xu said that these three robots cost a lot of money, each costing tens of thousands of yuan. I had thought about whether they could largely replace manpower, but in terms of trial, I am afraid it is still quite difficult. "the main guests for a long time, the speed can not come up, after all, to transport drinks, only about 0.3 meters per second speed."

Although it can not completely replace manpower.

But robot employees are better than being cute.

Qian Bao reporter also slightly tested that the function of the food delivery robot is relatively simple, and does not have a simple communication function.

The welcoming robot does have a speech recognition system, which can carry out a small amount of simple communication, causing a lot of customers to stop.

In addition to introducing the situation in the store and asking where it came from, it would answer "I'm from outer space" and ask why its face was so fat, and it would answer with laughter.

"some customers say that the food delivery robot is magical. Guests will know to go back when they pick up things. In fact, they are not so intelligent. They are all controlled by the front desk." Ms. Xu said with a smile that they are still debugging these days, such as the dialogue of welcome robots is still being entered and improved one after another, in an effort to make these robots more "magical".

(original title: not a drop of coffee served by a cute ordering robot)