{"id":52064,"date":"2023-01-22T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/22\/japans-hi-tech-restaurants-secret-world-robot-sushi-chefs"},"modified":"2023-01-22T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T09:00:34","slug":"not-soulless-blocks-of-rice-the-secret-world-of-japans-robot-sushi-chefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52064","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not soulless blocks of rice\u2019: the secret world of Japan\u2019s robot sushi chefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting-edge technology is helping food chains reach the holy grail of  flawless, contactless, low-budget dining<\/p>\n<p>The secret behind the hi-tech future of sushi lies in an unremarkable building in the backstreets of Osaka.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, empty plastic cups and plates adorned with scrunched-up wet paper \u2013 to replicate the weight and texture of scallops \u2013 make their way along a conveyer belt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/22\/japans-hi-tech-restaurants-secret-world-robot-sushi-chefs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting-edge technology is helping food chains reach the holy grail of  flawless, contactless, low-budget diningThe secret behind the hi-tech future of sushi lies in an unremarkable building in the backstreets of Osaka.Inside, empty plastic cups and pl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,311,88,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-food","category-japan","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52065,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52064\/revisions\/52065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}