A waitress serves a bowl of noodles cooked by robots Koya and Kona at a ramen restaurant in Shanghai, China, 11 January 2016. Robots are continuing
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A waitress serves a bowl of noodles cooked by robots Koya and Kona at a ramen restaurant in Shanghai, China, 11 January 2016. Robots are continuing their gradual global takeover, one Chinese noodle stand at a time, but with a tasty bowl of ramen cooked up in less than 2 minutes, who is going to try and stop them? The latest addition to China's robotic dining scene is a Japanese ramen stand on Daming Road in Hongkou District of Shanghai. The two chefs there, by the names of Koya and Kona, will mechanically make you a delicious bowl of Japanese beef noodles. While the robots aren't advanced enough to actually make the noodles themselves, they are perfectly capable of boiling the noodles and serving them to you with the correct amount of soup added. The robo chefs' "owner" Liu Jin said that the pair of culinary masterminds were made by a Japanese company and cost him one million yuan (US$152, 000) in total. Thinking longterm, this isn't such a bad investment, considering that it's the same amount he would have to pay two human chefs over a six year period, and he gets the added bonus of close ties in the coming robot revolution.