Harbin's Robot Restaurant ..

 Harbin's Robot Restaurant ..

Robot Restaurant HARBIN   A restaurant in downtown Harbin, China, employs 20 robots

instead of humans that cook, serve and entertain its guests. The restaurant opened in June 2012 and has since become a novelty

spot in Heilongjiang province’s capital. When a diner walks in, an usher

robot extends their mechanic arm to the side and says “Earth person hello. Welcome to the Robot Restaurant”. Patrons can then place their order, which is relayed by humans

to one of

the four robot chefs who are able to cook various styles of

dumplings and

noodles. Once the dish is prepared, a robot waiter, which runs along

tracks

on the floor, carries it from kitchen to 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 set it down. There`s a singing robot too !!!

The robots are between four and five feet tall and can display 10

different facial expressions. They can work continuously for five

hours after a two-hour charge. But the staff doesn’t come cheap -

each robot costs between 200,000 to 300,000 chinese yuan

(US$31,500 –

US$47,000) with an additional 5 million yuan (US$790,000) invested

into the restaurant itself.

Harbin is one of the most genuinely unique places in China!!. known for its annual ice festival, the city has many other marvels , a huge tiger park  that  travel faster than 300 km/h a train in temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius. These are all cool, but Harbin is apparently not a city to rest on its

laurels. The Robot Restaurant opened in Harbin in June . .robot Restaurant staffs a total of 20 robots as waiters, cooks

and busboys.. . The robots were designed and built by a local firm, the

Harbin Haohai

Robot Company. Each robot costs between 200,000 to 300,000

Chinese yuan (US$31,500 – US$47,000) with an additional 5 million

yuan (US$790,000) invested into the restaurant

itself.With the average Robot Restaurant meal costing less than

62 yuan

(US$10), the restaurant is not meant to earn Harbin Haohai money. Instead, it turns out the restaurant is just   a brilliant piece of marketing !!