A restaurant at Vinoba Nagar in Shivamogga has a surprising new dining experience in store for its patrons. At Upahara Darshini, the waiter bringing you your order is not human, but a humanoid! Perhaps, this is the third restaurant in the country to have a robot doing the job of a waiter. The humanoid interacts with customers in both Kannada and English. Restaurant owner Suhan Raghavendra said he is yet to name the humanoid, which was introduced only a week ago and was bought at 5.5 lakhs. The one-year-old restaurant has now become the center of attraction in the city with people flooding in from across the district. The humanoid robot serves food and water to the customers. It does not receive orders from customers. A waiter receives orders from customers then he would keep the ordered food ready on the tray. The robot carries the tray, walking on magnetic track, and stands near the designated table. It asks customers to take food from the tray and returns. The restaurant says they can control the speed at which the robot moves. With a simple two-hour charge, the humanoid robot can function for almost the whole day. 

       Though it’s not the first company to employ a robot as Chennai and Hyderabad has already employed robots as waiters, but Shivamogga city in Karnataka has become the first city in Karnataka to follow suit.