A food tech pavilion added for the first time this year drew the biggest crowds at Robot World 2026, held at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, from the 4th through the 7th of this month, as robots and automation spread across the restaurant and food industries and their role expands beyond cooking into kitchen operations and customer service. Aniai, a company specializing in AI-powered cooking robots, grilled pork belly on site with Alpha Grill Single, a cooking robot built for grilled dishes released this year that cooks both sides of the meat at once without flipping it and lets users set the temperature, cooking time and meat thickness; an Aniai official said the company has supplied earlier Alpha Grill models to outlets of major burger chains including Lotteria, Mom's Touch and Frank Burger, released Alpha Grill Single this year with its width cut to about 60 centimeters so it can fit in smaller kitchens, is expanding into meat and Korean dishes such as pork belly, tteok-galbi and marinated meats, and is now exporting the equipment to the U.S. and other markets. Robotable showed a two-armed humanoid robot built for cooking, along with its own automated cooking system and an unmanned cafe solution called Table On, and focused on physical AI technology centered on ZEST, a research platform for a two-armed humanoid built for cooking that is being developed to assess the state of food as it cooks using cameras, thermal imaging sensors and an