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

I came to this canteen for lunch for the first time and looked at the tomatoes, scrambled eggs and braised pork in front of me. She still can't believe it was made by that big arm.

The canteen in guo grandma is the AI community canteen at Hongqiao Road 1004, and it is also the first AI community canteen in Shanghai. Jointly built by Hongqiao Street and Shanghai Xixiang Xiangyi Electronic Commerce Co., Ltd., the canteen has six areas: self-service Chinese food area, no man's land, self-service settlement area, online reservation cabinet access area, data center area and intelligent 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.

0 1 robot chef is worth one hundred.

Walking into the AI ? ? canteen, the IT Times reporter was attracted by the unmanned robotic arms on both sides.

According to the staff of Xixiang, the unmanned robotic arm will put the clean vegetables produced by the central factory into the corresponding intelligent cooking system for frying, roasting, boiling, juice extraction and heat preservation. Generally, it takes 3-5 minutes to cook vegetables, 5-8 minutes to cook leeks and 20-30 minutes to stew leeks. You can cook 100 dishes at the same time.

A big meat 8 yuan, a small meat 5 yuan, a vegetarian 3.5 yuan, the price is close to the people.

If you want a bowl of noodles for a change, the robot chef can also satisfy you. In no man's land, the "chef" is busy. When the reporter puts the empty bowl in the noodle taking position, the unmanned mechanical arm can sense that "the command is coming", and it will take out the raw noodles from the soup basket at the mouth of the noodle press and put them into the noodle cooking pot. After cooking, the robotic arm will shake the soup basket several times to drain, and the proficiency is no less than that of a professional chef.

Subsequently, the robotic 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 taking position, and a bowl of noodles will be cooked. Next to it, there are more than ten kinds of self-help toppings, such as snow vegetables, big ribs and hot sauce, which diners can choose by themselves.

It takes only one and a half minutes for an unmanned robotic arm to unload a single bowl of noodles, which is at least five minutes shorter than the usual time 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 intelligent snack machine at the location facing the street, which is also the star exhibit at the 202 1 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. It integrates warehousing, order taking, production, packaging, energy saving and other functions, and the mobile phone scans the code without touching the order, which is very suitable for use during epidemic prevention and control. There are all kinds of shredded Chinese cabbage noodles and three fresh noodles on the menu to meet different tastes.

Camera recognizes vegetable prices

At present, the self-service Chinese food area and unmanned noodle area of this AI canteen adopt self-service settlement method. Diners only need to put their plates in the settlement area, and the system can identify 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 recognize 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 takes pictures of the dishes, compares them with the picture samples in the system, and identifies the price of the dishes. In order to check out 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 the reporter: "The chip will increase the weight of the plate, and the lighter degradable plate is more suitable for the elderly. It can be directly recycled and degraded after use, 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 can't 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 brush their faces next time.

Regarding the privacy and security of human faces, Li Ming, CEO of Xixiang, told the IT Times reporter: "Our platform does not store user information, but is supported by UnionPay as a terminal. We transmit the 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 check out here. You can pay by credit card or cash. However, there is no small ticket after settlement, and I don't know how much it cost. " Guo grandma said.

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

03 New Social Scenes 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, "In the past, our family used to hire hourly workers. Since we have this canteen, we have come here to eat. " Also with Grandma Jiang is her wife, 93-year-old Grandpa Zhang, who is in a wheelchair. The old couple are inconvenient to move, so it is very friendly for them to open a canteen in front of their house. "Eat more at noon and then at night, and the meal of the day will be solved." Grandpa Zhang said.

The IT Times reporter learned that Hongqiao Street will arrange volunteers to guide 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 do it well. "Because it has just opened, volunteers can help the elderly get familiar with the dining process. After that, it will be changed to robotic 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 environmental arrangements, the habits of the elderly will be given priority. All seats are in the form of sofas, and the ground is paved with non-slip bricks. 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 consider these suggestions. We hope to turn the AI canteen into 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 smart life. "

Every day before 1 1, many old people will come to the dining hall one after another, sit on the sofa in the dining area, chat and wait 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 catering options. The dishes cooked by mechanical arm can control the intake of oil and salt and the proportion of nutrition more accurately, and provide more nutritious food types for the elderly.

According to the IT Times reporter, the AI canteen will also use the data center to collect dining data. Users can input personal information, such as age, gender, physical condition, etc. The data center will automatically recommend and match the nutrition menu according to the provided physical information and eating habits. Old people with respect cards can also view their personal data on the big screen at the door by inputting face information. In addition, the canteen will cooperate with nutritionists to launch dishes and digital menus suitable for people with diabetes and hypertension, so as to help them optimize their healthy eating habits and pay better attention to their later life.

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

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