7月新刊推荐 | 机器人将彻底改变快餐业( 五 )

 

这看起来像是最适合——或许是只适合——日本未来的一种设想。但麦肯锡全球研究院合伙人迈克尔·崔表示,餐饮服务以及酒店行业的许多任务都很容易实现自动化。迈克尔·崔在最近的研究中预测,在美国的餐厅和酒店里,工人们54%的操作都可以通过现有技术实现自动化,因而使其成为美国第四大可自动化行业。

7月新刊推荐 | 机器人将彻底改变快餐业

The robots, in fact, are already here. Chowbotics, a company in Redwood City, California, manufactures Sally, a boxy robot that prepares salads ordered on a touch screen. At a Palo Alto café, I watched as she deposited lettuce, corn, barley, and a few inadvertently

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crushed cherry tomatoes into a bowl. Botlr, a robot butler, now brings guests extra towels and toiletries in dozens of hotels around the country.