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You can have your ramen when you take it from these robots' cold, metallic claws
by Josh Tolentino, 08/06/2009
You can have your ramen when you take it from these robots' cold, metallic claws photo

If you're looking for a bowl of ramen and need to have it in exactly one minute and forty seconds, two chefs in Nagoya are ready to take your order.

FuA-Men (short for Fully Automated raMen) is run by a pair of robot arms apparently adapted from the industrial types that put together computer circuit boards and the like. That kind of exacting precision works great for making ramen, as they can adapt each bowl made to suit customer preferences for sauce, spices and noodle type. They're placed front and center in the restaurant, allowing everyone who walks in to have a look at the show.

And it's quite the show they put on. The arms can even carry on a scripted conversation, speaking with a stereotypical ramen-shack-chef accent. They compliment each other, spin plates, and even get into knife fights. Ah, the times we live in. Soon chimpanzees will need to learn ramen-making to compete with these robot-- Oh, wait.

See a customer's eye video after the jump. It reminds me of Chuck E. Cheese's, except with fewer sexual predators.





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