Robots as chefs in Chinese restaurant
The robot chefs at the Wishdoing restaurant on Shanghai's Nanjing Road can cook delicious Chinese cuisine within three minutes. They can serve customers eight popular dishes, including "crowd-puller dishes" like Kung Pao chicken, spicy diced chicken with peanuts and Mapo Tofu, bean curd with chilli sauce. The workers only have to press buttons on the robots to choose a dish and they will display the name of the ingredients and their quantities, the Shanghai Daily reported.
In appearance, the robots look like huge kitchen surfaces equipped with iron pots.
It only takes three minutes for a robot to clean the pot from a previous meal, stir the ingredients, finish cooking and then move the food onto a plate for serving.
Although the robots cost 200,000 yuan ($30,350) each, the fast food chain is planning to install them in all of its 100 outlets across the country, said an official surnamed Ma, working with the restaurant's parent company, Shanghai Qi Ding Food Development Co.
The robots were earlier displayed at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 and attracted a lot of attention, Ma said.
"We believe the cooking robots will become a trend in the future for the fast food industry as they guarantee low-carbon emission, food safety and standard tastes that don't change from one outlet to another."
The coming of the robots has, however, raised concerns among some chefs, who are worried they could lose the jobs.
But Ma said the concern was totally unnecessary.
"The robot chefs will be one part of the restaurant, but it doesn't mean that we would abandon traditional cooking methods."
Britain likely to go for China’s high speed bullet trains
The high-speed bullet trains are produced by the CSR Corporation, China Daily Thursday quoted the 21st Century Business Herald as reporting.
Gao Hucheng, China’s international trade representative, said British Prime Minister David Cameron has showed willingness to cooperate with China in Britain’s infrastructure construction and high-speed railway construction.
The media report said that CSR will lend a batch of train equipment to Britain for their high-speed railway reconstruction. Thereafter, a joint venture may be established when the cooperation is further strengthened.
This is the first time that China’s high-speed rail technology will enter the British market.
Britain plans to develop high-speed railways in the country over the next 15 years and promote high-speed bullet trains with a highest speed of 362 kph, the daily said.
China last year produced a high-speed train that set a world speed record during a trial run.
The train hit a maximum speed of 416.6 km per hour on its journey between Shanghai and Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province.
The train is designed to run at a speed of 350 km per hour on the 202-km-long track between the two cities. A one-way journey previously took two hours. But the new train would lessen that to around 40 minutes.
Renesas lays focus on India for its market expansion
Bangalore: Tokyo, Japan based Renasas Electronics, provider of Microcontrollers and semiconductor solutions, incorporates India in its global strategy for its market expansion. It announces the official inauguration of Renesas Electronics Singapore, India Branch Office in Bangalore in the presence of attendees from Japanese embassy in India, customers and industrial partners. Renesas is aiming to increase its overseas sales ratio to 60 percent by FY2012. Renesas Mobile Corporation, subsidiary of Renesas Electronics, through the acquisition of Nokia's wireless modem business offering semiconductor solutions for mobile devices, started its operation in December 2010, with R&D facilities in various regions including India. The company is engaging Indian market is a part of their overseas business expansion strategy. Choosing Indian market might work in favour of the company as India is a growing economy and it's growing in almost all sectors- Industrial, Consumer and Automotive. Renesas expects to grow its India market by 20 percent annually.
The company is planning to develop 100 new products specifically for Indian market. "We believe in high-potential growth of the Indian market and are eager to expand our global sales to synchronize their growth. Providing the best semiconductor solutions based on our competitive microcontrollers through the new branch, Renesas aims to double its sales in the Indian market to $100 million by FY2012 from $50 million," says Yasushi Akao, President of Renesas Electronics Corporation.
India branch in Bangalore has a manpower of 16 employess at present which the company is hoping to increase to 45 by FY2015. With authorized distributors, Renesas Electronics in India will have over 80 engineers providing field and technical support by sme fiscal year. Office will be reporting to Sunil Dhar, concurrently appointed as General Manager in Renesas Electronics Singapore.
Renesas has regional offices in Delhi and Mumbai as well and planning to have one in Pune in future. Company's reinforcement of overseas business strategy includes global offering of Symtem-on-Chip (SoC) combining Microcontrollers (MCU) with their analog and power devices.
The Company is planning to spend initial investment of $10 million to grow India's market. Renesas aims at developing the society with green technology by providing solution that innovate set/system energy efficiency. The growth strategy in India will include strengthening the MCU business and expand sales by kit solution using Analog and Power devices (A&P).
