Robot Sea Turtles Deliver Food At New Themed Restaurant

This is China’s new deep sea-themed restaurant where fine dining dishes are being delivered by robot sea turtles laying eggs into giant clams.

Caretta Land, in Shanghai’s Super Brand Mall in East China, serves guests a fusion of western and eastern cuisine.

It is the first of its kind in the country to deliver meals using drones modelled on sea turtles.

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The business’s name appears to be a reference to Caretta caretta, the Latin name given to the endangered loggerhead sea turtle.

Images from the high-tech restaurant show customers ordering off iPads before the robot turtles whiz around beneath the glass floor, stopping at food delivery lifts shaped like a giant clam.

The sea turtles lay ‘eggs’ containing customers’ meals, which are lifted to table height and ready for collection from their shell, restaurant COO Xu Jin explains.

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Diners collect meals from turtle egg-shaped containers inside giant clams at themed restaurant Caretta Land

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Mr Xu said the restaurant has 18 turtle robots, each of which follows a predetermined path beneath the transparent floor.

But the deep-sea experience goes beyond sea turtles and shells, as diners seated inside a cave-like space are treated to other sea-themed services including a large screen playing videos of the moving sea.

Specially made desserts in the form of starfish and sea turtle-shaped ice cream are also available.

Plans for a second Caretta Land in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province in East China, are already in the works, Mr Xu revealed.


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