Many restaurants in China today is opting to save on employee wages by forgoing traditional servers and using robots instead. According to them, even though the costs of robots are expensive, but it's will reduce the cost of labor in the future. The robots can ferry to foods to tables, while other animatronic staff help to prepare foods in the kitchen, but it's just can perform straightforward task such as squirting cooking oil into pans.
The automated robots' take orders, and even speak to customers with a 40-phase Mandarin Chinese vocabulary. Each machine travels through the small eatery using an optical sensing system that designed to keep them from running into walls or people. The robots also have a lifespan of about five years and run on a rechargeable battery that lasts up to eight hours.
According to the China Robot Industry Alliance (CRIA), China is now the world's largest consumer of robots, after overtaking Japan. Oxford University also released a study which said that 47% of the US workforce could be replaced by robots over the next two decades.
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