Various foods pass overhead at the Main Press Center (MPC) restaurant, which is the hub of reporters for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
You order food, sit down, and a pink robot in the shape of a tray carries the food along a rail mounted on the ceiling.
The 'delivery robot', which has moved over the seat, gets on the line and delivers food to the customer's nose.
Orderers can take their food directly from the tray and eat right away.
In addition to delivery robots, MPC restaurants have a variety of robots.
There are several types of robots, such as a 'hamburger robot' that makes hamburgers, a 'donburi robot' that carries rice bowls, and a 'bar robot' that makes cocktails yourself.
It takes about 1 minute and 30 seconds for the robotic arm to mix the specified drinks and create a beautifully colored cocktail.
Volunteers in pink uniforms only teach or count.
There's a reason the Chinese authorities have deployed various robots in the Olympic restaurants.
This is to prevent contact between volunteers and Olympic officials.
Chinese authorities have applied a 'closed-loop' method to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
It is the will to succeed in quarantine by completely blocking contact between Olympic officials who have entered from overseas and Beijing citizens.
Officials, such as the Olympic team and reporters, cannot take even a single step outside the designated areas such as stadiums, training grounds, and accommodations.
Strict control by the Chinese authorities is also implemented within the Olympic facilities.
In order to avoid direct contact with the approximately 20,000 volunteers and Olympic officials at the Beijing Winter Olympics, we came up with various ideas, such as developing a robot.
The organizing committee also recommended that volunteers avoid physical contact, such as shaking hands or high-fives, with Olympic officials.
(Photo = Yonhap News)