Robot Restaurant: Robots cook food and wait tables in Harbin. Twenty robots work at the Robot Restaurant in HarbinThey can deliver food, cook, usher and entertain dinersThe popular restaurant opened in June last yearEach robot costs between £20,000-£30,000 each By Alex Ward Published: 19:11 GMT, 13 January 2013 | Updated: 10:40 GMT, 14 January 2013 Service with a smile has turned sci-fi at this restaurant as diners are waited on and cooked for by robots. At Robot Restaurant 20 robots deliver food to the table, cook dumplings and noodles, usher diners and entertain them in Harbin, Heilongjiang province in China. When a diner walks in, an usher robot extends their mechanic arm to the side and says 'Earth person hello. Scroll down for video Droid delicacies: A robot delivers a dish to hungry diners at Robot Restaurant where 20 robots are used to deliver and cook food as well as usher customers and entertain them After diners have ordered, robots in the kitchen set to work cooking their meals.
As they eat, a singing robot entertains diners. Barobo launches 3D printed Mobot-A robot kit. April 10, 2013 Do you still remember the Barobo mobot, a competent modular robot system with two body joints and two rotating faceplates. Barobo, Inc., manufacturer of Barobo mobot, announced today the launch of the Mobot-A robot kit, a 3D printed robot. Barobo is a spin-off of technology developed at the University of California, aiming to make robotics more affordable, adaptable for education and industrial applications.
"As 3D printers become more and more common place in the classroom there's a need for engaging projects and curriculum to tie this powerful tool into science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects," said Graham Ryland, President and Co-founder of Barobo. All the 3D printable plastic parts, accessories, assembly instructions, and curriculum for the Mobot-A will be available to download from the company's website. The Mobot-A kit includes the internal electronics, motors, and fasteners. Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don't Fire Us? Illustrations by Roberto Parada This is a story about the future.
Not the unhappy future, the one where climate change turns the planet into a cinder or we all die in a global nuclear war. This is the happy version. It's the one where computers keep getting smarter and smarter, and clever engineers keep building better and better robots. By 2040, computers the size of a softball are as smart as human beings. Smarter, in fact. The result is paradise. Maybe you think I'm pulling your leg here. But they're not. What do we do over the next few decades as robots become steadily more capable and steadily begin taking away all our jobs? Suppose it's 1940 and Lake Michigan has (somehow) been emptied. By 1950, you have added around a gallon of water. At this point it's been 30 years, and even though 16,000 gallons is a fair amount of water, it's nothing compared to the size of Lake Michigan. So let's skip all the way ahead to 2000. But wait. And that's exactly where we are.
What if a robot drove your car? 20 March 2013Last updated at 20:15 ET By Theo Leggett Business reporter, BBC News Theo Leggett meets a car that sees pedestrians and tells them when they can cross the road In the 1980s the global TV hit Knight Rider not only made a star of David Hasselhoff, it also made the idea of a car driven and controlled by a robot part of popular culture. Now the concept is moving from the TV screen onto the roads of Silicon Valley. "The steering is entirely drive-by-wire, it's computer controlled," says Holly as we hurtle around the campus of Stanford University in a weird and wonderful contraption which would not seem out of place in a Mad Max movie.
"It's all electronic - there's no mechanical connection so we can programme it to do pretty much what we want. " Holly works at Stanford's Center for Automotive Research, based in Palo Alto, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. The machine she's driving is known as the X1. There's no bodywork, just a frame made out of metal tubes. Driverless cars. ThomasWieder : A Munich, la visite d'Ayrault... ASIMO | History. Robots Invade Restaurants: Here Are Eight of Our Favorites. Robotic automation has long been the domain of manufacturing, but of late, service robots have made an often entertaining and sometimes gimmicky leap to restaurants in China, Taiwan, Japan, and increasingly the US.
Please accept the following video ode to Singularity Hub’s favorite restaurant robots of the past few years. Noodle bot: Knife-brandishing chopper of noodles, you terrify and inspire us in equal parts. You slice noodles with grim efficiency, and for that we are grateful. Sushi bot: Although the high art of sushi-making may best be suited for human hands, we hold your pace of 3,600 robo-riceballs an hour in the highest regard.
Ice cream bot: The robot ice cream man cometh, and your theme song will echo in my skull for days to come—that is exactly as it should be. Hamburger bot: You have no video, and yet you were liked over 5,000 times on this site alone. Pizza bot: I am skeptical your vending machine pie will satisfy.