In the Californian city of Pasadena, a very unusual restaurant called CaliExpress is expected to open any day now. In it, the entire kitchen staff will be replaced by the robotic Flippy system. Visitors, who decided to have a snack, will order dishes on a touch screen and wait for their preparation, watching the manipulations of robots. A large and varied menu and practical absence of personal interaction with the staff are stated.
Inside the kitchen, everything is designed so that every order and every cooking process will be fully automated. John Miller, one of the heads of the company developing the system, Miso Robotics, characterises the novelty as the culmination of many years of research and development. By combining technology and investment, the world’s first fully autonomous restaurant has been created.
