Golden Plates 2021: Robots come to the rescue at understaffed B.C. eateries

Staff at the Mantra on Fort Street in Victoria take pride in their sumptuous lunch buffet. With different vegetarian and nonvegetarian curries offered every day, regular customers can look forward to a variety of dining options. Mantra on Fort Street also has a mechanical device that delivers drinks, cutlery, and other goodies to diners. It's a creation of GreenCo Robots, an Edmonton-based company headed by engineer Liang Yu. In a phone interview with the Straight, he said that about 30 of his firm's robots are in use across Canada.