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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
Entertainment
Stephen Topping

We visited the Chinese restaurant in Wigan where food is brought over by a ROBOT

There was considerable excitement at the Manchester Evening News when we first heard about the local buffet restaurant where food is being served by a robot.

Some 37 years since since Sico the robot delivered cake and wished Paulie a happy birthday in Rocky IV , it seems the future has finally arrived, at The Chinese Buffet in Wigan.

As someone with fond memories from afternoons spent at Chinese buffets as a hungry teenager - without a robot in sight - I jumped at the chance to see how the game had evolved.

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