Monday, February 21, 2011

Robot waiters: the end of customer service as we know it?

Many depictions of the future include robots performing jobs like waiting on tables and cleaning the streets. A group of students from Bangkok University in Thailand are using Linux to bring us one rude step closer to such a world.

Bangkok University Students Develop Waiter Robot

The question remains whether they might make the waiter robots too realistic and program them to get orders wrong sometimes and avoid eye contact with you when you want to change your order.

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