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"Are all these dishes made by robots?" Guo grandma, 68, stopped a passing waiter while eating and asked curiously.

The first time I came to this canteen for lunch, she looked at the scrambled eggs and braised pork with tomatoes in front of her, but she still couldn't believe that it was made by that "big arm".

guo grandma's canteen is the AI community canteen at No.1114 Hongqiao Road, and it is also the first AI community canteen in Shanghai. It was jointly built by Hongqiao Street and Shanghai Xixiang Yixiang E-Commerce Co., Ltd. * * *. There are six areas in the canteen: self-help Chinese food area, unmanned area, self-help settlement area, online reservation counter access area, data center area and smart snack machine.

As an AI canteen, there is no high-tech "brush". In the AI canteen, all dishes and noodles come from intelligent cooking systems and unmanned robotic arms.

11 The robot chef walked into the AI dining hall with one to a hundred

, and the IT Times reporter was attracted by the unmanned robotic arms on both sides.

Xixiang staff introduced that the unmanned robotic arm will put the clean vegetables produced by the central factory into the corresponding intelligent cooking system for frying, roasting and cooking, collecting juice and warming up. Generally, it takes 3-5 minutes to cook vegetables, 5-8 minutes to cook meat dishes, and 21-31 minutes to cook stewed meat dishes, which can complete the cooking of 111 dishes at the same time.

8 yuan for big meat, 5 yuan for small meat, and 3.5 yuan for vegetarian food. The prices are close to the people.

if you want to eat a bowl of noodles for a change, the robot chef can also satisfy you. In the no-man's-face area, the "chef" is busy. When the reporter puts the empty bowl in the noodle-taking position, the unmanned mechanical arm can perceive that "the order is coming", and it will take out the raw noodles from the soup basket at the mouth of the dough-pressing machine and put them into the noodle-cooking pot. After cooking, the mechanical arm will shake the soup basket a few times to drain it, which is as skillful as a professional chef.

then, the robot arm will accurately put the noodles into the empty bowl, and the noodle bowl will be automatically transported to the noodle soup faucet to add soup, and then transferred to the noodle fetching position, and a bowl of noodles will be served. Next to it, there are more than ten kinds of buffet toppings, such as snow vegetables, big chops and hot sauce, which diners can choose by themselves.

It only takes one and a half minutes for the robotic arm to place an order for a bowl of noodles, which is at least five minutes shorter than the time normally spent waiting for noodles in the noodle restaurant. Looking at the robot chef's "divine operation", several diners came to the noodle block and ordered a bowl of noodles.

in addition to Chinese food and noodles, the AI canteen has also set up a 24-hour smart snack machine near the street, which is also a star exhibit at the 2121 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. It integrates the functions of storage, order taking, production, packaging, energy saving, etc., and the mobile phone scans the code without touching the order, which is very suitable for the epidemic prevention and control period. On the menu, there are kinds of shredded pork noodles with cabbage and three fresh noodles to meet the tastes of different people.

12 Camera recognizes the price of vegetables

At present, both the self-service Chinese food area and the unmanned noodle stall area of this AI canteen adopt the self-service settlement method. Diners only need to put their plates in the settlement area, and the system can recognize the price of each dish and calculate the total price.

unlike the plates with chips, the plates used in this canteen are degradable disposable plates. How does the system identify them?

In the settlement area, the IT Times reporter found that the settlement system adopts intelligent visual settlement. Diners only need to put their plates on the AI recognition intelligent settlement platform, and the camera automatically captures the pictures of the dishes and compares them with the picture samples in the system to identify the price of the dishes. In order to settle accounts more quickly, the staff will put a dish sample in a different position on the plate in advance, and a dish will change its position about nine times to collect pictures, which will increase the accuracy of identification.

The staff who are inputting pictures of dishes told reporters: "Chips will increase the weight of plates, and lighter degradable plates are more suitable for the elderly. After use, it can be directly recycled and degraded, which also ensures the hygiene and safety of dining. "

after the system calculates the price, diners can use WeChat, Alipay, bank card and digital RMB to pay. Old people who don't know how to use smart phones can also directly brush the card for respecting the elderly. For the phenomenon that the elderly may forget to bring their cards or lose them easily, the canteen will also help the elderly to recognize their faces, bind personal information, and just brush their faces next time they check out.

Regarding the privacy and safety of human faces, Li Ming, CEO of Xixiang, told the IT Times reporter: "Our platform does not store user information, and UnionPay is the terminal support. We transmit user information to UnionPay to form an effective transaction. We will not force the elderly to enter information, and the elderly can also use cash. "

"It's convenient to settle accounts here. You can pay by credit card or cash. But there is no small ticket after the settlement, and we don't know how much we spent. " Guo grandma said.

The fast settlement method saves a lot of time, but the elderly who don't have smart phones hope that every sum of money they spend can be checked in paper form, and the living habits of the elderly should be considered in the intelligent fast lane.

13 New social scene for the elderly

"It is inconvenient for the elderly to go to the vegetable market and they can't cook." Grandma Jiang, 89, told the reporter, "We used to hire hourly workers at home. Since we had this canteen, we have come here to eat." Also with Grandma Jiang is her wife, Grandpa Zhang, who is 93 years old, with a wheelchair beside her. The old couple can't move easily, so it is very friendly for them to open the canteen in front of their house. "Eat more food at noon and eat it at night, and the food for one day will be solved." Grandpa Zhang said.

The IT Times reporter learned that Hongqiao Street will arrange volunteers to guide in the canteen during the peak period. When the elderly arrive at the buffet Chinese food area and say what they need, volunteers can help them make it well. "Because it has just opened, volunteers can help the elderly get familiar with the dining process. After that, we will change to robot meal sharing and packaging to truly realize intelligent contactless dining. " The staff in the side dish area introduced.

Li Ming told reporters: "The setting here is more biased towards the elderly, and the dishes are less oily and salty, soft and light; In terms of environmental arrangement, priority will be given to the habits of the elderly. All seats are in the form of sofas, and anti-slip bricks are laid on the ground. Some elderly people complain that the space is relatively small, the dining peak is crowded, and the electronic screen display is not obvious enough. We will also take these suggestions into account. We hope to make the AI ? ? canteen a new social scene for the elderly. The elderly who come here can find a sense of belonging and experience the convenience and beauty brought by intelligent life. "

At less than 11 o'clock every day, many old people come to the dining hall one after another, sitting on the sofa in the dining area, chatting and waiting for the restaurant to open. AI community canteen not only provides them with intelligent community life experience, but also brings new social scenes, so that the elderly can have their own "circle of friends" after eating.

In this regard, Hongqiao Sub-district Service Office said that the community AI canteen is located at the intersection of residential areas and white-collar parks. Increasing the catering format can integrate resources and give the surrounding "white-collar+white-haired" groups a variety of dining options. The dishes cooked by the mechanical arm can more accurately control the intake of oil and salt and the proportion of nutrition, and provide more nutritious food categories for the elderly.

According to the reporter of IT Times, the AI canteen will also use the data center to collect dining data. Users can enter personal information, such as age, gender and physical condition, and the data center will automatically recommend and match nutrition menus according to the provided physical information and dining habits. The elderly who brush the card for respecting the elderly can also view personal data on the big screen at the door by inputting face information. In addition, the canteen will also cooperate with nutritionists to launch dishes and data-based menus suitable for people such as diabetes and hypertension to help them optimize their healthy eating habits and pay better attention to their old age.

Regarding the development and promotion of community AI canteens, Hongqiao Sub-district Service Office indicated that in the next stage, community AI canteens will play an active role in radiation. In the future, food delivery services will be carried out in six neighboring residential areas to facilitate the elderly to dine nearby and promote the full coverage of centralized distribution of catering services for the elderly in Hongqiao Street.

Editor/Pan Shaoying is kicked by her sister

Typesetting/Ji Jiaying

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