Rotating Table Essenslieferroboter by Hongliang Qian

Rotating Table Essenslieferroboter by Hongliang Qian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award in Silber in Robotikdesign Competition Category.

SilberRobotik· 2023

Rotating Table Essenslieferroboter

by Hongliang Qian

Client: Hongliang Qian

A' Design Award in Silber Winner in Robotik Category

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The Design

About Rotating Table Essenslieferroboter

Rotating Table ist ein Essenslieferroboter für die Gastronomie. Viele Serviceroboter verfügen über fest montierte mehrstöckige Tabletts, sodass sich das Personal zum Abstellen und Abräumen der Teller bücken oder hinknien muss. Rotating Table setzt dagegen auf drehbare Platten und verfügt über zwei Betriebszustände: einen für den Transport und einen für das Servieren bei Ankunft. Zwei Riemenscheibensätze drehen die obere und die untere Platte gemeinsam, während die mittlere Platte stabil bleibt, sodass die Speisen stets waagerecht ausgerichtet bleiben. Über einen Touchscreen werden Auslieferung, Schwenkbewegung, Musik, Aufnahmefunktion und Informationsanzeige gesteuert. Stimmungsvolle Ambientebeleuchtung und eine silberne Oberfläche runden das Design ab.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Silber

Rotating Table Essenslieferroboter ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Silber, einer enorm prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für erstklassige, großartige und beeindruckende Spitzendesigns. Silber-Gewinner sind ungemein brillante und äußerst kreative Werke, die die herausragende Expertise, das Talent und den Scharfsinn ihrer Designer veranschaulichen. Von Rotating Table Essenslieferroboter wird erwartet, dass es ein wunderbares Vorzeigewerk ist, das bemerkenswert professionell und zutiefst innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Silber prämierte Design ist eine höchst bemerkenswerte, bewunderte Erfindung, die den Grenzen von Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie zugutekommt und sie voranbringt. Rotating Table Essenslieferroboter ist eine vielbeneidete Schöpfung, die Wünsche weckt, positive Gefühle vermittelt und Staunen und Verwunderung entfacht.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Rotating table is an efficient dining robot. Currently, most of dining robots use multi-layer fixed dinner plates, which leads to the need for waiters to repeatedly bend over to take food and even squat down when storing and taking it. Over time, waiters can be very uncomfortable.
The Rotating table dining robot can provide users with a faster, more efficient, and elegant dining experience. It can be served as soon as it is delivered, and delicious without waiting.
Dimensions & Packaging: 1000mm×600mm×960mm
Tags: Meal delivery robot, service robot, intelligent robot
Production Technology: The working principle of the entire rotating table dining robot is based on the design of a rotatable dinner plate. It has two different working states to meet different functional scenario requirements.

The main color of the complete machine is silver, with a highly technical texture. The whole machine is designed with flexible atmosphere lights in many places, making the entire dining environment more elegant. The organic texture on the dining plate makes the entire machine look more exquisite.
Design Challenge: It is very difficult for Rotating table dining robot to achieve synchronous flipping of the meal plate without causing the food to tilt. Finally, two sets of pulleys were used to control the upper and lower plates, and the middle plate was always kept stable,. One group controls the rotation angle of the upper and lower plates to be consistent, while the other group controls the uniform rotation of the entire plate surface.
Research: Conduct on-site interviews and video recordings of restaurants currently using service robots, analyze the problems users encounter in using service robots, and find a starting point for this design.

When using a dining robot, waiters need to frequently bend over to pick up plates on different layers, which requires some time. Guests also need to wait for a certain amount of time to serve when the dining robot arrives. Therefore, I hope to design a dining robot that can facilitate waiters to quickly pick up meals while reducing customer waiting.
Inspiration: Most dining robots have fixed plates, which makes it difficult to pick up food and requires the waiter to bend over, which is very inelegant. Therefore, I want to design a dining robot that can make picking up food more convenient and elegant.

There are many classic folding structures in traditional furniture tables and chairs, and the Rotating table is a design of dining robot based on some of them.
Project Duration: The project started in Shanghai in June 2021 and was completed in March 2023. Currently, it has not been officially exhibited.
Operation Flow: The Rotating table dining robot mainly controls products through a touch screen, including delivery, flipping, playing music, recording, and information. In the transportation state, the screen will display cute smiling faces.

The dining robot is mainly divided into two working states, one is during the transportation process, and the other is when it arrives at the destination and is in a flipped state.