Robot restaurant where machines cook and serve food to customers

It may sound like a scene from a sci-fi movie but a new café in China is running its restaurant using robots.

Located in Kunshan, eastern China, the restaurant relies on over a dozen machines for tasks such as greeting customers, waiting on tables and cooking basic meals.

The eatery becomes the third café in the world to rely on the use of robot employees, potentially giving a glimpse into how future businesses could operate.

Speaking to a local newspaper, owner Song Jugang explained that the robots cost around £4000 - The same as the yearly pay for a human employee.

There are drawbacks to using the robots which is why Mr Jugang still relies on humans, hiring a handful to work in the kitchen and cook dishes too complex for their mechanical countrparts.

The futuristic machines have a limited vocabulary and take two hours to charge enough to complete a five hour shift but give an insight into how far robot technology has come.

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