How would you feel about being served food by a robot ?

One restaurant in China has done exactly that - swapping a human waiter for a 140cm-tall robot counterpart.

Using a battery, the robot is capable of serving diners at a restaurant in Shenyang, capital city of China's Liaoning Province, for up to eight hours.

The robot takes customers their food and drinks and, thanks to a mix of sensors and navigation hardware, is able to avoid spilling anything.

It can carry up to 7kg of food or drink at one time and, better yet, doesn't require wages - or even a tip.

Good for restaurant owners, but not for anyone looking for a job in the catering industry.

Thankfully, tech experts reckon it'll take a while for robot waiters to replace a human face .

"I think there are several generations of development yet before the physical world of humans is replaced with cyber alternatives," Mark Skilton, from Warwick Business School told Mirror Online.

"But it is right to consider the ethical and economic repercussions of this inevitable technological scaling of computing," he said.