Winter Olympic Economic Observation - the "robot" that cooks for the Reporters of the Winter Olympics has drawn out a market of 100 billion
Zhongxin Finance, January 25 (Shi Rui) "adding ingredients, stir-frying, seasoning, out of the pot, plate, serving", can you think of this series of skilled cooking techniques are operated by "robots"?
In the wisdom restaurant of the main media center of the Beijing Winter Olympics, all this has become a reality, even "food falling from the sky".
Chef's robot "apprentice"
According to the understanding of China News Finance, the "cooking robot" of the winter Olympics smart restaurant can make spicy hot, kung pao chicken, pot rice and other Chinese food, but also can do burgers, Spaghetti sauce and other Western food, and even cook dumplings, boiled wontons, mix cocktails, the most rare is that they are on standby 24 hours, will not be tired, eat fast, but also reduce personnel contact, indeed worthy of the name of "smart restaurant".
The official name of these "robots" that cook for the Media personnel of the Winter Olympics is smart catering equipment. In the smart restaurant, you can see smart catering equipment such as smart burger machine, smart rice cooker, smart snack fried machine, smart wok, smart dumpling ravioli machine, smart spicy ironing machine, smart bartending machine, as well as the cloud rail transmission system for automatic food delivery.
Smart catering equipment is not a traditional humanoid machine form, for example, the main body of the intelligent wok that can automatically stir-fry vegetables is a circular pot, but it has learned the art from the "'World Gastronomy Capital' Shunde Top Ten Famous Chefs", converting the secrets of chef heat control, stir-frying techniques, and order of feeding into programs, and then restoring them with hardware machines.
The form of the smart bartender is a stout white mechanical "arm", this robot hand can deftly take the cup, ice cup, set the cup, like a human bartender to complete the complex mixing, while the intelligent shaking action, only 3-5 minutes can make a cup of "high value" cocktail.
A smart bartender that is bartending. Courtesy of respondents
According to China News Finance, during the trial operation from January 4 to 22 alone, there were about a thousand news agency workers and rights holders from all over the world eating at smart restaurants. By the time of the race, the restaurant is expected to host an average of around 5,000 to 6,000 registered photojournalists and rights holders per day.
Cooked to order, not "prepared" heating
What are the ingredients for the "Robot Chef" to cook? Is it fresh ingredients or "prepared food bags" from the recent fire?
Zhong Zhanpeng, project director of the smart restaurant of the Winter Olympics Main Media Center, told Zhongxin Finance that all the food in the smart cooking experience area of the smart restaurant is cooked on the spot, and the dishes cooked by different smart devices are not the same, such as the smart wok is used to fry fresh vegetables and meat, such as garlic broccoli, small fried yellow beef, etc.; the smart pot rice cooker can make two kinds of rice cookers on demand, such as rib pot rice is sewn into the water, raw rice, oil and ribs, of which the ribs are marinated in advance in the central kitchen; and dumplings, The wontons are wrapped in advance and cooked by a smart dumpling ravioli machine.
The traditional catering model, because of different chefs and different skills, the same dishes are not necessarily delicious every time, and the "Cooking Machine of Mode Feelings" has the advantages of accurate cooking actions and stable level of cooking.
Taking the intelligent rice cooker as an example, this robot can control the precise heat of 36 stove heads at the same time to ensure that each pot of rice cooked out can have a golden yellow pot; the smart snack frying machine can automatically identify different ingredients according to the order, and independently control the frying temperature and time for different ingredients and different processes.
"Food in the sky" has come true
In addition to the "cooking robot", the Winter Olympic Smart Restaurant also has an "aerial cloud rail" for serving dishes. According to The China News Finance, the top of the Chinese food area of the smart restaurant is covered with transparent glass tracks, and the cars on the tracks are in a state of standby and rapid action, and this system is an intelligent transmission device.
"Aerial cloud rail" and intelligent wok linkage, when the intelligent wok is loaded, the dishes are uploaded to the aerial cloud rail, and then there will be a cloud rail trolley to pick up the dishes, through the calculation of the optimal path, automatically deliver the dishes to the corresponding table above the sky, and then through the "dish machine", let the food "fall from the sky".
"Dish picking machine" to let the food "fall from the sky". Courtesy of respondents
The advantages of this system are to improve the efficiency of vegetable transmission, dustproof and heat preservation, and avoid human contact. Zhong Zhanpeng, project director of the smart restaurant, told Zhongxin Finance that there are 18 woks in the smart wok area, which can make 18 dishes at the same time, each dish takes about 4-6 minutes, and then serves through the "cloud rail in the air" and "next dish mouth", according to the distance of the seat and the busy situation at that time, the delivery takes 2-4 minutes, which saves a lot of time than real people cooking and delivering.
What else can robots do besides cooking? Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", the average annual compound growth rate of the mainland robot industry is about 15%, and the operating income of the robot industry will exceed 100 billion yuan in 2020. Robots sweeping floors and window cleaning have all "flown into the homes of ordinary people." In addition, robots have also made a difference in many fields such as express logistics, surgical nursing, education and entertainment. (End)