Man has invented many wonderful things. We’ve put a person on the moon. We’ve mapped the human genome. And now, finally, we’ve figured out how to get eel with miso cream cheese to travel from the cutting board via conveyor belt directly onto your plate.

Starting Tuesday, Boulder diners can join the cutting edge of modern innovation by eating sushi without speaking to a single human being.

Kura Revolving Sushi Bar is set to open at noon that day at 1855 29th St.

It will offer a waiter-free, high-tech dining experience where sushi comes to you, gliding past on a conveyor belt like a tiny edible parade. Plates start at $3.90, and you don’t even have to spend 10 minutes trying to pronounce “negitoro” to a confused server. Orders are taken by touch screen and delivered by a belt that zips dishes straight to your table like a raw fish rollercoaster.

Kura is a U.S. offshoot of a Japanese chain that’s been perfecting the rotating sushi game since 1977. The company now operates more than 550 locations around the world and has become known for its elaborate tech setup. Every booth has two conveyor belts: one for the continuous flow of ready-made dishes, and one that delivers custom orders with a jingle and the precision of a bullet train. Each plate is topped with a protective dome that pops open only when you lift it, and your empty dishes are slid into a table-side slot that counts them electronically — partly for billing, and partly so the restaurant can track how many you’ve eaten.

If a full tummy weren’t reward enough, the restaurant adds a little extra incentive: If you eat 15 plates, a small toy is dispensed from a prize machine above your table.

The menu is stacked with crowd-pleasers such as spicy tuna rolls, salmon nigiri, edamame, and miso soup, but there are also bolder options: garlic ponzu sashimi, gunkan (little seaweed-wrapped rice boats topped with salmon roe, spicy scallop, or whatever else the chefs are feeling), and crispy rice topped with snow crab mayo. There’s ramen, udon, fried shrimp wontons, gyoza, takoyaki, and taiyaki ice cream shaped like a fish. All of it falls under Kura’s “muten” philosophy, which means the food is made without any artificial preservatives, colorings or sweeteners.

Conveyor-belt sushi was invented in 1958 by Osaka restaurateur Yoshiaki Shiraishi, who got the idea after watching beer bottles cruise through a brewery, according a history on seattlefish.com. His goal was to serve more customers with fewer employees, and the result was a dining system that became a staple of Japanese restaurants by the 1970s and eventually made its way overseas.

In the U.S., conveyor-belt sushi took root slowly in cities such as Los Angeles and Seattle, but in Colorado, not so much. Denver briefly had a spot called Sushi Rama, but Boulder has never had a full-blown kaiten-zushi (“conveyor belt sushi” in Japanese) setup. Kura is the first to roll into town and finally gives the conveyor belt its rightful place in the local food scene.

For more info, head to kurasushi.com.