It's more teatime than Terminator - a restaurant in China is electrifying customers by using more than a dozen robots to cook and deliver food.

Mechanical staff greet customers, deliver dishes to tables and even stir-fry meat and vegetables at the eatery, which opened last week in Kunshan.

"My daughter asked me to invent a robot because she doesn't like doing housework," the restaurant's founder, Song Yugang, said.