Real-time single dish cleaner

A system for cleaning reusable dishes, comprising:

• a. a load module disposed to contain a plurality of dirty dishes, wherein said dirty dishes are stained with material that needs to be removed prior to reuse;
• b. a wash module having the means to transform a single dirty dish into a clean dish, wherein said clean dish does not exhibit any material that needs to be removed prior to reuse;
• c. a store module for storing a plurality of clean dishes, wherein said store module is arranged as a vertical stack together with said load module;
• and
• d. a robot module comprising a robotic arm configured to perform an ordered sequence of actions comprising picking a single dirty dish from load module;
• transporting said dirty dish from load module to wash module;
• holding said dirty dish during cleaning in wash module to transform said dirty dish into a single clean dish;
• transporting said clean dish from wash module to store module;
• and dropping off said clean dish in store module, wherein said robotic arm performs said ordered sequence of actions sequentially for an individual dish before said robotic arm makes contact with another dish,
• whereby dirty dishes are cleaned thoroughly and efficiently with individual attention in real time.