Serving food to robots also reduces the risk of infection by reducing contact between people

Serving food to robots Reduces contact between people and reduces the risk of infection September 28, 14:32

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An IT company has developed a robot that reads the layout of the audience seats in a restaurant with a sensor and serves food, reducing the burden on the clerk, reducing contact between people, and reducing the risk of infection with the new coronavirus. Is expected.

Softbank Robotics Corp., which develops robots, announced a new robot in Tokyo on the 28th.

A sensor attached to the front reads the layout of the audience seats, creates map data inside the store, and when the employee specifies the seat to carry the food, the food is carried while avoiding obstacles.

When the customer picks up the food on the tray, the robot returns to the vicinity of the bunches, reducing the burden on employees to repeatedly move around the store for serving.

Many restaurants are taking measures such as partitioning the audience seats with transparent sheets in the wake of the spread of the new coronavirus infection, but at the company that developed it, if the serving is left to the robot, the contact between the clerk and the customer will decrease. , I think that the risk of infection can be reduced.

The company plans to start renting robots to restaurants from January next year.

Fumihide Tomizawa, president of SoftBank Robotics Corp., said, "In addition to reducing the burden on employees, we can contribute to reducing contact between people as much as possible. We would like to consider using it in hotels and warehouses."