Those who are a stickler for etiquette should look away now. That's because we've all been dining the wrong way and should be eating with our hands, according to a psychologist. Professor Charles Spence, from the University of Oxford, said giving up cutlery is the secret to enjoying food. He says eating with our hands can'heighten the dining experience' – even for meals like pasta and messy curries. Those who are a stickler for etiquette should look away now.

Arriving at Creator, a new restaurant located on the ground floor of an office building on downtown San Francisco's Folsom Street, feels like walking into a catalog. Sleek, wooden communal tables with high white stools line one end of the room, with a bookshelf full of hand-picked culinary books against the wall and modern light fixtures overhead. It's what you would have imagined a restaurant eventually looking like if you watched a lot of The Jetsons. Those machines, with large transparent glass casings and ingredients in cylindrical tubes, are Creator's burger-making robots. Each 14-foot device contains around 350 sensors and 20 microcomputers to produce the best, freshest, locally sourced cheeseburger that $6 can get you in America's most expensive city.

When Artifical Intelligence (AI) is brought up, it's hard to shake the rising fear of robots outsmarting humans and making us the subservient species. We can thank Hollywood for the assumption that AI will bring violent, uncontrollable robots and a lack of control as these new machines begin to think autonomously and more efficiently than us. AI will soon affect every dining experience. Will robots completely replace humans, from servers to managers, as AI advances in the food and hospitality industry? Restaurants and food service businesses truly have more to anticipate than fear as smart, self-learning systems are applied to bring food lovers a better experience and meal.