Posted on 12/26/2014 5:08:25 AM PST by lowbridge
Robots have replaced human workers in a restaurant in China. Lu Dike, Owner of a family restaurant in the northeast China provence of Zhejiang said he is opting to save on employee wages by foregoing traditional servers and using robots instead. Sound familiar?
Besides the savings Lu has experienced, the robots have become an enormous tourist attraction. The automated bots take orders and speak to customers with their forty phrase Mandarin Chinese vocabulary.
Each bot navigates the restaurant by sensing magnetic strips in the floor and using optical sensing systems that keeps them from running into walls or people.
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No I have never been to a Wawa, but Sheets is pretty much the same.
I would not consider ordering from a kiosk at a quickie mart fine dining.
LOL! Looks more like pills on wheels
Somehow robots would not have worked in the movie
“A Christmas Story”
http://forums.macresource.com/file.php?1,file=1154,filename=cstory.jpg
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