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Service Robots in Catering Applications: A Review and Future Challenges

Journal

ELECTRONICS
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/electronics10010047

Keywords

service; catering; robot; waiter; human-robot; interaction; social

Funding

  1. HUMASOFT project [DPI2016-75330-P]
  2. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, the SHARON project [SHARON-CM-UC3M]
  3. Carlos III University of Madrid
  4. RoboCity2030DIH-CM Madrid Robotics Digital Innovation Hub [S2018/NMT-4331]
  5. Programas de Actividades I+D en la Comunidad de Madrid
  6. Structural Funds of the EU

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With the advancement of robotics technology, waiter robots and other "catering robotics" are gradually entering professional fields such as restaurants. These robots have social capacities to interact with consumers and other robots, as well as physical skills to perform complex tasks in environments like restaurants.
Hello, I'm the TERMINATOR, and I'll be your server today. Diners might soon be feeling this greeting, with Optimus Prime in the kitchen and Wall-E then sending your order to C-3PO. In our daily lives, a version of that future is already showing up. Robotics companies are designing robots to handle tasks, including serving, interacting, collaborating, and helping. These service robots are intended to coexist with humans and engage in relationships that lead them to a better quality of life in our society. Their constant evolution and the arising of new challenges lead to an update of the existing systems. This update provides a generic vision of two questions: the advance of service robots, and more importantly, how these robots are applied in society (professional and personal) based on the market application. In this update, a new category is proposed: catering robotics. This proposal is based on the technological advances that generate new multidisciplinary application fields and challenges. Waiter robots is an example of the catering robotics. These robotic platforms might have social capacities to interact with the consumer and other robots, and at the same time, might have physical skills to perform complex tasks in professional environments such as restaurants. This paper explains the guidelines to develop a waiter robot, considering aspects such as architecture, interaction, planning, and execution.

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