Service
UK restaurant group Big Table Group began trialling a BellaBot at its Bella Italia restaurant at Center Parcs Whinfell Forest.
A dated step forward on the record
What the source says
“Bella Italia has begun trialling a robot waiter in one of its restaurants to help support staff.”
What it means
BellaBot, KettyBot and other Pudu robots, from Pudu Robotics, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.
More on BellaBot, KettyBot and other Pudu robots
- Pudu raised nearly 1 billion yuan (about $150 million), valuing it above 10 billion yuan. It said it had shipped more than 120,000 robots to over 40,000 customers.
- Pudu launched the PUDU D7, its first semi-humanoid robot (a robot with a human-like upper body on wheels).
- Pudu opened a new large factory in Jiangsu, China, and said it rolled out its 80,000th robot.
- Japanese restaurant group Skylark Holdings, which runs about 3,000 restaurants, said it would roll out more than 2,000 BellaBots across its venues over the following year.
- Pudu launched BellaBot, its premium food delivery robot, and HolaBot, a robot that answers calls from tables.
- Pudu Robotics was founded in Shenzhen, China, to build food delivery robots.