A pop-up truck called Robotic Cafe got a robot to serve customers flavoured ice golas. Food blogger from Ahmedabad, Kartik Maheshwari captured the experience for Instagram and the post has shot to 90K likes and counting.
Kartik recalls his visit to the place post work. “I ordered a chocolate syrup gola and the robot brought it over to me, which was so cool. The kids who were around were so excited to see this, too. I’ve eaten in so many places, but this was my first experience in the city of being served by a robot.”
We reached out to the café owner Aakash Gajjar who dished the deets on how he switched to AI from the prep to the serving. He says. “It’s a new concept here for sure. Earlier, people would prepare the ice golas manually, but there was this question of how hygienic the ice is etc. We thought, ‘Let’s invent something where the machine would prepare the gola as well as a robot who would then give it to the customers.”
The toppings – sev, fruit, dried fruit, syrup and other ingredients – are added via a machine and then a five-foot robot, developed and manufactured in-house, carries it to the patrons.
Name Aisha, the robot costs a neat sum – Rs1,35,000 ! It kicked off from March 1 and so far the menu has just ice golas. “People love the robot and want to take selfies with it. We actually have a long wait time each day,” he adds.