Friday, August 22, 2014

Restaurants run by robots

Robots


A restaurant is being run by robots.


The eatery in Kunshan, east China, has over a dozen robots which wait on tables and cook the food, the Metro newspaper reports.


Owner Song Jugang, explained that each robot costs approximately 40,000 yuan (£4,000), a similar salary to a human employee.


Song says the machines are more reliable than their human counterparts as they don’t require any holidays or sick days.


The robots – which take two hours to charge – work five hour shifts and have limited vocabulary.


Some humans work in the kitchen to cook the more complex dishes.




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