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Attention to robotic application development in catering has been largely been focused on serving and cooking. The motivation of our research is to create the first viable system integration to the task of washing dishes, which is a task relatively untouched by researchers. Dish-washing is the cost department for restaurants that do not use disposable utensils for loading food. With the labor market shunning from tasks that require direct contact with unhygienic objects for long hours, we saw the value of our proposed integration. We present an automatic 2-arm robot system that can complete the entire dish-cleaning process from loading dirty dishes to stacking clean dishes, to match the requirement collected from analyzing data of a real restaurant and to deploy. We have shown that the system is capable of completing all the tasks it is designed to perform, and is capable of processing all the dishes produced in a day from a restaurant.
I. Mizuuchi–This work is supported by Connected Robotics, Inc.
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Lo, W.S. et al. (2022). Developing a Collaborative Robotic Dishwasher Cell System for Restaurants. In: Ang Jr, M.H., Asama, H., Lin, W., Foong, S. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems 16. IAS 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 412. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95892-3_20
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