Winter Olympics Economic Observation︱The "robot" that cooks for the Winter Olympics reporters has led to a market of 100 billion
Zhongxin Finance, January 25th (Shi Rui) "Add ingredients, stir fry, season, cook, plate, and serve", can you think that this series of skilled cooking techniques are all operated by "robots"?
In the Wisdom Restaurant, the main media center of the Beijing Winter Olympics, all this has become a reality, and even "food is lost in the sky".
Chef's Robot "Apprentice"
According to Zhongxin Finance and Economics, the "cooking robot" in the smart restaurant of the Winter Olympics can make Chinese food such as Mala Tang, Kung Pao Chicken, and claypot rice, as well as Western food such as hamburgers and Italian bolognese sauce, and even cook The most rare thing about dumplings, cooking wontons, and mixing cocktails is that they are on call 24 hours a day, they are not tired, they serve meals quickly, and they can also reduce personnel contact. They are indeed worthy of the name of "smart restaurant".
The official name for these "robots" that cook for the Winter Olympics media is smart catering equipment.
In smart restaurants, you can see smart burger machines, smart claypot rice machines, smart snack fryers, smart wok pans, smart dumpling wonton machines, smart mala hot machines, smart bartenders and other smart catering equipment, as well as smart catering equipment for Cloud rail transmission system for automatic meal delivery.
Smart catering equipment is not in the form of a traditional humanoid machine. For example, the main body of the smart wok that can automatically cook vegetables is a round pot, but it has learned the art from the "'World Food Capital' Shunde Top Ten Famous Chefs", and the chef The secrets of heat control, stir-frying techniques, and cutting order are converted into programs, and then restored by hardware machines.
The shape of the smart bartender is a sturdy white mechanical "arm". This robot hand can dexterously take cups, ice cups, and place cups, complete complex blending like a human bartender, and perform intelligent shakes at the same time. Action, it only takes 3-5 minutes to make a cup of "high-value" cocktails.
A smart bartender in action.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
According to Zhongxin Finance, during the trial operation from January 4th to 22nd, about a thousand workers of news organizations and rights-holding broadcasters from all over the world dined in the smart restaurant.
It is estimated that the restaurant will receive an average of about 5,000 to 6,000 registered text photojournalists and rights-holding broadcasters every day by the time of the game.
Made to order, not as easy as reheating "pre-cooked dishes"
What are the ingredients for the "robot chef" to cook?
Is it fresh ingredients or the recently popular "pre-made vegetable bag"?
冬奥主媒体中心智慧餐厅项目主管钟展鹏告诉中新财经，智慧餐厅智能烹饪体验区的所有食物都是现点现做，不同智能设备烹制的菜品不太一样，比如智能炒锅所用的都是新鲜的蔬菜、肉类进行炒制，如蒜蓉西兰花、小炒黄牛肉等；智能煲仔饭机可以现点现制两款煲仔饭，如排骨煲仔饭就是分别下水、生米、油和排骨，其中排骨是中央厨房提前腌制过的；而饺子、馄饨则是提前包好，现场由智能饺子馄饨机烹煮而成。
传统餐饮模式，因为厨师不同、技艺差别，相同的菜品不一定每次都好吃，而“莫得感情的做饭机器”则拥有烹饪动作精准、出菜水平稳定的优势。
以智能煲仔饭机为例，这台机器人可以同时操控36个炉头的精准火候，确保煲出的每一锅煲仔饭都能有金黄色锅巴；智能小吃炸品机则能根据订单自动识别不同的食材，并且针对不同食材、不同工艺独立控制油炸温度和时间。
“天上掉美食”成真了
除了“做饭机器人”，冬奥智慧餐厅还有用于上菜的“空中云轨”。据中新财经了解，智慧餐厅中餐区上方布满了透明玻璃轨道，轨道上的小车都处于时刻待命和迅速行动的状态，这台系统就是智能传送设备。
“空中云轨”与智能炒锅联动，当智能炒锅装盘完毕后，菜品被上传到空中云轨，随后就会有云轨小车来接应菜品，通过计算出的最优路径，自动将菜品送达对应的餐桌上空，再通过“下菜机”，让美食“从天而降”。
“下菜机”，让美食“从天而降”。受访者供图
这套体系的优势在于提高传菜效率、防尘保温、避免了人为接触。智慧餐厅项目主管钟展鹏告诉中新财经，智能炒锅区有18个炒锅，可以同时做18道菜，每个菜大约用时4-6分钟，再通过“空中云轨”和“下菜口”上菜，根据座位远近和当时繁忙情况，送餐需要2-4分钟不等，比真人烹制送餐省时很多。
除了做饭，机器人还能干什么？“十三五”以来，我国机器人产业年均复合增长率约15%，2020年机器人产业营业收入突破了1000亿元。扫地、擦窗机器人都已经“飞入寻常百姓家”。除此之外，机器人还在快递物流、手术护理、教育娱乐等多个领域有所作为。 (完)