A Cat Robot Is Serving Sushi on Queen Street

Downtown Fredericton's newest sushi room has a server with cat ears, a cartoon face and four trays. At Sushi Jet, the all-you-can-eat chain that just opened at 432 Queen St., a robot glides from the kitchen to your table, waits while you lift off your plates, and rolls back for the next round.

Eat there: Order from Sushi Jet Fredericton — 432 Queen St., open 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., (506) 206-9888

That cat is a serious machine

The robot matches Pudu Robotics' BellaBot, and it deserves the glaze: this is one of the most advanced delivery robots working anywhere, moonlighting as a cat. A glossy white tower with a black face screen, ears on top and four glowing trays, it looks like a gadget from 2030 — and the hardware backs the look up:

• Dual SLAM navigation — LiDAR and visual positioning at once, so it maps the room and holds its line through a busy service
• Three RGBD depth cameras and 3D obstacle avoidance that reacts in half a second
• Automotive-grade independent suspension, floating a full load over floor joints without rattling a single plate
• Infrared tray sensors that know the moment you've lifted your food off
• 13-hour battery, quick-swappable, summoned by app, call button or watch via Pudu Link

Four trays, 40 kilograms of carrying capacity. This is not a toy with ears. The ears are just the best line on the spec sheet.

In Halifax and Dartmouth, where the chain's other rooms run the same robot, reviewers call it "a polite robot cat" and diners post it constantly. Fredericton got no announcement. The store's own page never mentions a robot. It is just here now, working — some of the most sophisticated service tech in the country, delivering miso soup on Queen Street.

The food, though, is why you will go back. It was awesome on Monday night — and two dishes are must-tries: the scallop tempura and the spicy miso soup. The staff were great beyond the robot, too. And it was great value for a high-end experience: a full spread of sushi, tempura, edamame and soups, with a robot working the room.

From taking a number to table A22

The room itself is the other story. For years, 432 Queen St. was Service New Brunswick — the service centre and Corporate Registry, the address on government guides telling you where to queue for licences and forms. A lair of nightmare bureaucracy for anyone who ever took a number there.

Between Sushi Jet and the new Dooly's in the same building, that floor is now a modern, welcoming space — sushi, a robot cat, and a pool hall next door. Nobody takes a number anymore. They take your order, and a robot brings it.

One caution on bragging rights: a listing for El Mariachi on Forest Hill Road also describes a robot waiter, so call this downtown's robot — not necessarily the city's first.

Sources

• Order / menu — Sushi Jet Fredericton (Mrs Digi) — 432 Queen St., (506) 206-9888, 11:30 a.m.–10 p.m.
• Pudu Robotics, BellaBot — the robot's specifications: https://www.pudurobotics.com/en/products/bellabot
• RobotLAB — BellaBot distributor listing: https://www.robotlab.com/store/bellabot/?hsLang=en
• Wanderlog, Sushi Jet Halifax reviews — "a polite robot cat delivers your food to the table": https://Wanderlog.com/place/details/2448694/sushi-jet
• Instagram, March 16, 2026 — the cat robot, branded OJET, at Sushi Jet: https://www.instagram.com/p/DV9ojCJDPp-/
• Service New Brunswick guide (revised February 2019) — Corporate Registry at SNB, 432 Queen Street, Fredericton: https://www.pxw1.snb.ca/snb7001/e/1000/CSS-FOL-78-9596-e.pdf
• First-hand: NB Tech News dined there Monday, Oct. 26, 2026; dishes, staff and the value verdict are from that visit