Restaurant run by Robots: An eating house where robots cook and serve food

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A sci-fi restaurant in Harbin, China, has employed robots to work as waiters, cooks, entertainers and receptionists.

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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.

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Pedestrian looks at a robot that specialises in greeting people outside a Robot Restaurant in Harbin. 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."

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Robot that specialises in cooking, prepares "jiaozi", or Chinese dumplings, at a Robot Restaurant in Harbin.

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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.

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A boy touches a robot that specialises in delivering drinks at a Robot Restaurant in Harbin.

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Robot delivers a dish to customers at a Robot Restaurant in Harbin.

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As people eat, a singing robot entertains diners. The robots have been designed and manufactured by a Chinese company.

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Chief Engineer Liu Hasheng, said they invested USD eight million in setting up the gen-next restaurant

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Liu added that after a two-hour charge the robot can work continuously for 5 hours.