Robot for salads, a drone with pizza and a VR barist. Where technologies lead the food industry

The expansion of virtual and augmented reality continues. Drones gradually appear in the sky of the largest cities. These technologies are increasingly affecting our everyday habits and rituals. We have already talked about how VR changes medicine - helps to fight diseases, phobias, prepares doctors for difficult situations, how AR will soon make us abandon smartphones (all the necessary information will be in glasses). Revolutionary decisions did not bypass the industry of food. Republic tells how waiters learn to serve in VR, buyers quickly consider calories in purchased products and how restaurants make food delivery as fast as possible.

Drones and robots

Modern technologies make it possible to automate some processes that seem too routine and boring to us. The startup Chowbotics offers that the salads in your kitchen are cut by their Sally robot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDHZNP10N6A

The robot prepares any salad of 21 possible ingredients.
The menu has ready -made combinations, but the owner of the device can always create a custom version of his dinner.
The robot cooks some dishes in just a minute.
All that is required of a person is to throw the components and substitute a plate.

Food delivery also does not stand still -now we are forced to wait long for the order due to traffic jams that often delay the couriers. The use of drones in this area is not a novelty. In New Zealand, Domino's Pizza delivers its branded dish using a quick quadrocopter - at a speed of 30 km/h the device will reach the client’s house from the nearest pizzeria in just 10 minutes.

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However, not everyone wants to abandon cars for the delivery of pizza. The ZUME startup combined the transportation with cooking - the dish is prepared right in the van on the way to the client so that the pizza does not cool down. Inside the van is a whole mini-factory for the production of dough, to which ready-made classic ingredients are added-sauce, cheese, vegetables and meat.

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VR and AR

Content for augmented reality is becoming more and more , it can be found everywhere - from the IKEA catalog to cards in smartphones. Technologies are becoming cheaper, the number of devices with their support is growing. They penetrate into the food industry: they are already used by the chef, cafe owners, and even those who prefer to cook at home.

The Australian winery 19 Crimes, which became the best wine brand of 2017, released seven brands of wine with unusual labels. Each depicts migrants-rings that landed in Australia in the 19th century. All heroes are real characters. The buyer can lead a smartphone on a bottle, and a revived version of the hero will appear on the screen, which talks about his crimes.
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Even a tasting can be carried out in a new format of an interactive attraction. Boursin has been holding Boursin Sensorium and have been holding the Boursin Sensor. The client puts on a helmet of virtual reality, he is demonstrated by the insides of the refrigerator - he flies over the cheeses, spices and other products of the company. At the same time, around the chair on which the user is sitting , the winds of wind blow, and the staff offers to try and smell the goods that he sees on the screen in front of him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRIK3H5M- Qu

Employee training

In parallel, virtual reality is ready to offer restaurants a fundamentally new way of training workers.

As a rule, if a person goes to work in this area as a service staff, he has to spend months on painstaking training. Everyone passes through this: chef, waiters and barista. Thanks to VR modeling, cafe owners can train people in a special digital environment designed to model basic work scenarios and the most difficult situations.

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