The AI will take your order now: World's first restaurant exclusively staffed by robotic cooks that flip burgers and make fries says it's ready to launch in California

Burger fans in Pasadena, California will soon get to taste the future of fast food: a patented, AI-powered, short-order-cooking robot named Flippy. Flippy's makers said the new dining spot will be'the world's first operating restaurant where both ordering and every single cooking process are fully automated.' In addition to Flippy, responsible for deep frying chicken nuggets and French fries, a fellow'BurgerBot' will be grilling up patties, and a biometric payment system, PopID, will take customers' orders. While Flippy got its first job in the fast food industry back in 2017, serving at 50 CaliBurger restaurants after training, the new'CaliExpress by Flippy' will be the first time the rail-mounted mechanical arm will get to work with more of its own kind. Holding company Cali Group -- which owns Miso Robotics, the firm behind Flippy -- said it hoped the new CaliExpress will'inspire the next generation of kitchen AI and automation entrepreneurs' by offering educational tours and robotics exhibits.