Tableware Tidying-Up Robot System for Self-Service Restaurant-Detection and Manipulation of Leftover Food and Tableware.

In this study, an automated tableware tidying-up robot system was developed to tidy up tableware in a self-service restaurant with a large amount of tableware. This study focused on sorting and collecting tableware placed on trays detected by an RGB-D camera. Leftover food was also treated with this robot system.