Robots Are Making Our Restaurants Safer

Customers at Henn-na, a restaurant in Japan, have their food prepared by a row of robots. The “head chef,” a robot named Andrew, makes okonomiyaki, a Japanese pancake. He has been programmed to stir the batter, pour it on the grill, and wait a specific amount of time for it to cook perfectly.  Other Henn-na robots fry donuts, portion ice cream into cones, and even make boozy drinks. 

Spyce, an innovative new restaurant in Boston, uses automated woks to prepare and plate guests’ meals in three minutes or less.  The restaurants’ technologies allow their robots to seamlessly process orders, collect and measure ingredients, cook meals precisely, and plate the food, which human employees deliver to guests.  

Chowbotics, a California company, manufactures Sally, a salad-making robot who is programmed to combine produce based on customers’ specific requests. San Francisco restaurant Creator features two large, robots that use 350 sensors and 20 microcomputers to produce…