According to the growth of the total retail sales of social consumer goods in the first half of 2119 released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the catering income in the first half of 2119 was 2,127.9 billion yuan, up 9.4% year-on-year, showing a steady and progressive development trend.

In recent two years, while the catering market has expanded rapidly, new development forms are constantly emerging, and smart catering is one of them.

The use of intelligent equipment such as cooking robots and food delivery robots has further accelerated the intelligent development of the catering industry.

Cooking robot liberates programmed cooking manpower

The rapid development of catering industry has driven the growth of many restaurant chain stores, but the dining rate of some restaurants can't keep up with the huge passenger flow, which reduces the consumption experience.

In addition, the chef's human factors also make it difficult for some chain restaurants to standardize their tastes.

It is understood that in order to solve these problems, some smart restaurants have begun to replace chefs with cooking robots.

Cooking robot combines mechatronics technology with cooking technology, and transforms traditional cooking technology into machine-readable language.

With its own pot movement mechanism, tool movement mechanism, temperature control device and other necessary auxiliary devices, the machine can automatically complete the cooking process and realize the standardization and automation of cooking.

The emergence of cooking robots has largely liberated the manpower of programmed cooking.

At present, the cooking robot market is also developing towards data, depth and parity, and smarter robots are built by improving the ability of robot perception and judgment.

Food delivery robots bring a good interactive experience

In recent years, China's demographic dividend has gradually declined, and the population is aging, which has brought the catering industry problems such as labor shortage and rising labor costs.

With the maturity of robot technology, service-oriented robot food delivery robot which can realize human-computer interaction has been favored by the catering industry.

The food delivery robot can improve the quality of the restaurant to a certain extent and bring more passengers to the restaurant.

More importantly, the food delivery robot can greatly improve the work efficiency, and can alleviate the recruitment difficulties faced by the catering service industry at present.

With the application of deep learning algorithm and many intelligent algorithms such as computer vision, machine learning and intelligent voice, the machine vision and human-computer interaction ability of food delivery robot are constantly improving.

It is understood that a food delivery robot manufacturing enterprise has adopted multi-sensor fusion algorithms such as lidar, RGBD depth camera, ultrasonic, IMU and encoder to realize 3D composition and positioning, thus realizing centimeter-level real-time positioning and high-precision map construction, and further improving the robot's mobility and obstacle avoidance sensitivity.

conclusion of xiaobian: nowadays, smart catering has become a hot word in the catering industry.

The application of robots such as cooking and food delivery can not only effectively optimize the dining experience and reduce the labor cost of restaurant operation, but also help the catering industry to realize the transformation from low human efficiency and extensive to refined and beneficial direction.

It is foreseeable that the service robot market in China is about to explode. Therefore, relevant equipment manufacturers should also speed up the research and development of artificial intelligence technology, improve the penetration rate of robots in the catering industry, and thus promote the overall development of the catering industry.