First it was live crabs being sold in vending machines, now it’s robots in restaurants. It seems China is starved for attention when it comes to the food industry, attempting to be as innovative as humanly possible. Too bad...
The food and drink sector has been buying in a great deal of packing, palletizing and handling equipment , according to a quarterly survey of members of the British Automation and Robotics Association.
By 2010 we all expected to have house-robots, hover cars and jet packs, and so it’s disappointing to get here and find all we get is the Roomba, Toyota Prius and the iPad. However there is one area where technology has been progressing with the futuristic pace we’d expect of the early twenty-first century.