Should we be worried about the robotics revolution?

Machine automation has been rising rapidly since the 1960s. And Artificial Intelligence has increased the ways that robotics can enhance our lives. In recent years, even the most ‘typically human’ interactions are being mechanized.

Take going to a restaurant for example. Robots are now being used as waiters and cleaning staff, but there’s one restaurant in Paris that’s using a different recipe for automation.

Since the Covid crisis, the hotel and restaurant industry has been experiencing an unprecedented global employment crisis. In France, it has lost nearly 10% of its workers. So, could robots be a solution to this shortage?

Imagine if a robot replaces the chef? In a Paris restaurant, this future is very much in the present. A robot named Pazzi prepares and serves up to 80 pizzas per hour without any human intervention.

The process is simple and transparent: the customer orders at an automatic kiosk before the robot's articulated arms flatten the dough, spread the sauce, add the ingredients - all of them organic - and place the pizza in the oven. The pick-up is done with a QR code.

"The biggest technical difficulty was mastering organic products," says Sebastien Roverso, Co-Founder of Pazzi. "Dough is a living substance, there are yeasts. The product has characteristics that aren't constant. Sauces can have varying thicknesses. So it was extremely complex to develop a technology capable of managing any type of ingredient, while respecting the products."

“Robots can perform cooking tasks much more easily, more quickly and to a higher standard than a team of kitchen workers," says Philippe Goldman, Ceo of Pazzi Robotics

"That's the advantage of robotics, which already help in numerous sectors. There is no reason why they