Even wearing a mask has robots supervising, and the Winter Olympics have opened the eyes of Duck Teacher again.
As a scientific and technological Winter Olympics, the Beijing Winter Olympics can be called a realistic version of "Robot Story": cooking robots, food delivery robots, logistics robots, in the places you want to get, can not think of, everything can be robot.
Even NBC described the Winter Olympics' smart restaurant as "like a science fiction movie." The unmanned restaurant that can accommodate more than 1700 people at the same time can fry a dish every 3 minutes, the restaurant has no waiters, and the food falls from the sky and is automatically delivered to the corresponding table through the "cloud rail transmission system".
In the restaurant, there are not only automatic burger machines, stir-fry machines, and food delivery robots, but also rice cookers, ice cream robots, and bartending robots, which can be said to be the robots.
According to reports, the design team of the smart restaurant has designed more than 60 catering service robots, which can cook according to different types of media such as water, steam, oil, etc., not only to master the heat, but also to complete the action of reversing the spoon, shaking the pot, turning the pot and so on.
The design team said that there have been takeaway companies that have expressed their intention to cooperate, and the standardized cuisine of robot cooking is expected to enter thousands of households through takeaway.
In our impression, the catering industry is a hard worker, getting up early every day and greedy. Can you use robots easily?
According to the report, the size of China's catering market will be 4.0 trillion yuan in 2020 and is expected to reach 6.6 trillion yuan in 2024. The biggest feature of the domestic catering industry is decentralization, low chain rate and concentration.
According to Meituan data, in 2020, the domestic restaurant chain rate will be 15%, and even first-tier cities will only be 20%. This means that 80% of the catering industry is a "mom-and-pop shop".
Compared with the 50% restaurant chain rate in the United States, China's restaurant chain market still has a lot of room for improvement. Like McDonald's and KFC, the reason why it can achieve a global chain is because of its management standards and high degree of standardization of dishes, and the double-layered cheeseburger you eat at any restaurant is that taste.
If you want to build such a chain catering enterprise, standardization and stable quality of dishes have always been a major challenge. The stir-fry robot brings hope to change this situation, not only to stabilize the quality of dishes, but also to improve efficiency in the meal process.
Some enterprises have begun to explore the intelligentization of catering. For example, in 2021, there are more than 70 stores in Haidilao equipped with intelligent pot dispensing machines, and Country Garden cross-border catering, investing in the establishment of a robot catering group.
Can a robot free hands when cooking at home?
Unfortunately, the current home cooking robot is still in a state of "semi-intelligent and half-retarded". For Chinese food with a broad and profound food culture, a simple stir-fry dish can also be divided into stir-fry, boiled stir-fry, sautéed and so on. Robots are still almost meaningless to meet personalized cooking needs.
What's more, the price of home cooking robots is not cheap, generally ranging from thousands of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, and the lower price of cooking robots has problems such as few recipes, which is difficult to truly meet the needs of users.
Maybe for foodies, robots can't become the chefs at home for the time being, but for takeaways and chain restaurants, robot stir-frying may not work, but it is not a big problem to help a chef, or it can help a lot.