Amazing news! There are robot cooks in Hunan Province. They started cooking local(当地的) dishes at a restaurant in Changsha on May 1.
The cooking robots get cooking skills and recipes(食谱) for 40 kinds of Hunan dishes. They are (A)a to cook fried meat in two minutes. (B)We want our customers to enjoy the dishes and the amazing robot cooking."said Li Zhiming, the inventor of the robots and owner of the restaurant.
Li hopes that Hunan robot cooking restaurants can open worldwide in the future, like KFC and Mc Donald's." In Changsha, the restaurants, which are similar to ours in size, need 8 to 10 cooks and kitchen helpers. (C) we only need two kitchen helpers to help three robot cooks in our restaurant," said Li.
Kitchen helpers at Li's restaurant put materials(材料) into special boxes, and press the button "ON", The robot cooks then begin to cook. It is not an easy job to invent these robot cooks. Li and his group spent round four years and nearly ten million yuan inventing such a robot cook. At present, Li's restaurant can sell more than 800 bowls of rice with Hunan local dishes on top per day. Li plans to open up brunches
(分店) in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and even abroad.