Cctv newsSouth Korea raised the minimum hourly wage again this year, which led to an increase in the employment cost of the catering industry. In order to save costs, some restaurants have begun to introduce intelligent robots that can replace simple manpower. Recently, a noodle cooking robot in a restaurant in Seoul has attracted the attention of many consumers.
Reporter Liu WeiI am now in a restaurant in Seoul. What is special about this restaurant is that the chef who cooks noodles here is a robot. Guests put the selected noodles and side dishes on the corresponding operating table according to the types of noodles they like, and the robot will select ingredients, pour them into different pots to cook noodles, take them out, and then pour the corresponding soup. The whole process is very smooth. Just now, I looked at the time, and the whole process of making a bowl of noodles by the robot took less than 1 minute.
The developer of this noodle cooking robot accurately inputs the steps of the chef’s cooking into the relevant programs. After learning, robots can do the same actions as chefs. In addition, through a conversion technology called "intelligent tools", the robot can also pick up all kinds of dishes smoothly and skillfully use all kinds of tableware to ensure that it will not fall during the production process.
Shen Xiaozheng, head of a robot restaurant in South Korea.There are hot water and a variety of tableware in the cooking area, which is prone to scalding accidents and cooks are easily tired. By introducing robots, we can ensure the safety of staff and improve efficiency.
In this robot coffee shop, the reporter saw three intelligent robotic arms. If a guest orders a cup of hand-brewed coffee, the mechanical arm will pour the pre-ground coffee beans into the filter paper, and then pick up the fine-mouthed pot next to it for brewing. The whole process is done by imitating the actions of a professional barista. Then, as long as you input the table number to the delivery robot in the store, it can deliver coffee to the guests. In addition, there is an ice cream robot. Customers only need to wait for more than 10 seconds, and a sweet ice cream is ready.
Korean consumersIt is difficult to make a uniform taste by hand, but the robot can make it uniform, and the robot is also very novel in distributing snacks, which I think is particularly fun.
The Korean catering market is highly competitive, with an average of 125 catering enterprises per 10,000 people. According to industry insiders, intelligent robots have a high demand in the catering industry in South Korea. However, at this stage, the cooking level of robot chefs still stays in making relatively simple dishes. In the future, with the continuous improvement in practical applications, robots can bring more surprises to the catering industry.