Restaurant Waiter Robot

Abstract

In the current scenario, the restaurants from all over the world use manual waiters, i.e., the humans where the customers are being served by them. As communicable diseases are widespread, the need for social distancing and safety are major concerns nowadays. There is a need to ensure the least number of personal contacts. We can resolve the issue by introducing a restaurant waiter robot, where the robot sanitizes the dishes and serves the food to the customer. This will attract more and more customers and also will lead to a healthy lifestyle. The domain of the project is the internet of things (IoT), where we are building a robot using the microcontroller Arduino. We know that this project belongs to IoT. IoT is the system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, and the capability to transfer data over a network without requiring human to human or human to machine interface (HMI). Thus, our robot is an application where the customer is recognized by the table number. The different table numbers can easily be authenticated without any confusion. The online system allows the customer to order the required items. It also provides a chance for the customer to order as many times he wants without much interaction with the waiter. It also includes water and beverage serving as per the need. In the end with all the orders done, the robot will collect the money via cash or online payment. Apart from this the history of customers is also fed to the system and the same way the rewards or offers can be awarded.