First robot waiter

First robot waiter

A Pakistani restaurant become the first restaurant to have a robot waitress for serving the food.

A shop named pizza.com, located in the city of multan in Punjab province became evidence of long queues outside the restaurant after local media informed about robot waitress.

According to dawn newspaper this robot is developed by pizzeria owner's son, who is an electrical engineering graduate from National University of Science and Technology,Islamabad.

Pizzeria owner Sayed Aziz Ahmed Zafari said that "soon after the news of robot waitress is spread long queue of customer can be seen who wants to dine here." He said his son Syed Osama Aziz has given the idea robotic waitress to give a boost to business.

"My son was interested in going united states for further studies, but I  insisted him to stay in our country and do something for our country specially this city(multan). And I am also feeling proud to be a multani. we left Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad behind." mr. zafari said.

"This robot can navigate to customer table, greet them, serve them and come back to the counter." said Aziz, the developer.

This robot is capable of Weighing 25 kg and can carrying up to five kg of food, the robot also detects and requests the obstacle in its way to give way. 

"Much is needed to improve, basically I got this idea from china where robots are serving in restaurants already." he said.
Editor: Vaibhav Shukla (Jalandhar)