Micro-Machines IV – Waiting tables

The concept of robots waiting tables is not a very interesting one. This is something that humans do very well so it’s not very appealing for machines to do it.

Maybe we will have some projects of robotics table waiting, but it won’t certainly be something mainstream for the next hundred years. As machines do more and more tasks human relationship services will be more valuable.

But let’s understand how such service could be performed by machines.

It wouldn’t make any sense to have human shaped robots walking around. To wait on tables a robot doesn’t need a human head or 1,5 meter shoulders.

A simple tower as high as a table, large enough to carry a plate on the top would be effective for the job. It would just bring your plate next to the table, and then it would slide it into the table.

But such towers sharing moving space with costumers walking is not comfortable at all.

A balcon based Restaurant might be the answer. BBR are restaurants where a balcon separates people from servants who serve the food directly in front of people. In order to have clients face-to-face BBRs might have tables perpendicular to the tables.

In a robotic BBR, the kitchen, the balcony, and the client tables would be same height. Micro machines would push around the plates and even clean the tables after the clients.