When will robots start making food in public restaurants?

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Update 2025-11-24 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): - Must be a real robot cooking food
- Robots must be seen in most restaurants to count as "started"

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It's a real robot cooking food, and it has to be seen in most restaurants to count that robots have started cooking.

@ZZSInzg Requiring robotic hardware to be deployed in “most restaurants” is absurd. That’s like claiming that driverless car technology has not begun being used because it’s only commercially deployed in 5 cities instead of “most” cities. Whether robots are capable of something or are in early deployment is a basically separate question from whether it has significant market share.