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"Paging C-3PO: there's a job opening with your name on it.\nRobot Restaurant, in the Heilongjiang province of China, has a staff of 20 robots that cook, serve and entertain its guests. The restaurant opened in June 2012 and has since become a novelty spot in the province's capital. \nThe robot staff operates through tracks on the floor, which lead from the kitchen and down the aisles between tables. The menu includes dumplings and noodles and is prepared by the robots themselves. After a patron orders, a robot sings near the table while their food is being cooked.       \nThe bots are between four and five feet tall and can display 10 different facial expressions. \nSEE ALSO: Fast Food Robot Builds the Perfect Burger\n\nAccording to the Daily Mail, each machine can work for about five hours after a two-hour charge. But the staff doesn't come cheap: each one costs between $30,000 and $50,000, the Mail reported. \nOther restaurants are experimenting with non-human staff as well. In San Francisco, a tech startup called Momentum Machines is hoping to launch a burger joint where all the cooking is done by robots. The company says the machines can crank out more than 360 hamburgers per hour.       \nWould you dine at a robot-run restaurant? Tell us what you think about it below.  \n\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Sebastianlund\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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