Rotating Table Robot de livraison de repas by Hongliang Qian

Rotating Table Robot de livraison de repas by Hongliang Qian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award d'Argent in Robotique Competition Category.

ArgentRobotique· 2023

Rotating Table Robot de livraison de repas

by Hongliang Qian

Client: Hongliang Qian

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Robotique Category

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The Design

About Rotating Table Robot de livraison de repas

Rotating Table est un robot de livraison de repas conçu pour la restauration. De nombreux robots de service utilisent des plateaux fixes à plusieurs niveaux, obligeant le personnel à se pencher ou à s'accroupir pour déposer et récupérer les assiettes. Rotating Table est doté de plateaux pivotants et présente deux états de fonctionnement : l'un pour le transport, l'autre pour le service à l'arrivée. Deux jeux de poulies font pivoter simultanément les plateaux supérieur et inférieur, tandis que le plateau central reste stable, ce qui maintient les plats à l'horizontale. Un écran tactile commande la livraison, le basculement, la musique, l'enregistrement et l'affichage des informations. Un éclairage d'ambiance et une finition argentée parachèvent le design.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Rotating Table Robot de livraison de repas est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent, une reconnaissance énormément prestigieuse décernée à des designs haut de gamme, superbes et impressionnants. Les lauréats Argent sont des œuvres tout à fait brillantes et extrêmement créatives qui illustrent l'expertise, le talent et la perspicacité remarquables de leurs concepteurs. Rotating Table Robot de livraison de repas est censé être une œuvre merveilleuse, une vitrine de savoir-faire, remarquablement professionnelle et profondément innovante. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent est une invention très notable et admirée, qui sert l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. Rotating Table Robot de livraison de repas est une création très enviée qui éveille les désirs, apporte des sentiments positifs et suscite émerveillement et étonnement.

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.