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Going Singapore ? Don’t be surprised if you are served food by a robot waiter more specifically a UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). Yes, a Singapore based company named “Infinium” has made this possible. The robots are named as Infinium-Serve, will be launched in year 2015, in a Singapore restaurant, according to local media.
This might be the world’s first commercial plan at replacing humans with machines in food industry, Timbre Group (restaurant chain which will deploy the robot) plans to have robots ready to take orders at tables by the end of next year, Channel News Asia reported. Infinium Robotics and Timbre Group – one of Singapore’s most popular restaurant chains – signed a memorandum or contract of understanding on October 31 in order to launch the robots. Initially, they could be seen in five outlets.
They need money and are looking for government grants to help reduce development costs, which are estimated to be a “seven-figure sum,” says Woon Junyang, chief executive officer at Infinium Robotics.
Woon said he believes that replacing waiters and waitresses with robot waiter would help solve Singapore’s labor problems. Lately Singapore has been facing quite a labor shortage, particularly in the service sector, due to stricter restrictions on the number of workers allowed into the state especially foreign workers. According to Woon this will also allow human waiters to focus on more interesting higher value tasks, such as getting feedback from customers and ordering wine.
“This will result in an enhanced dining experience which will eventually lead to increased sales and revenue for the restaurants,” he said. But, this may also lead to loss of jobs which is again negative aspect of technology. Follow us on facebook for more. This thing comes again and again machines replacing Humans.
This whole thing also has a funny side too:
#What if curry spills onto fan of robot the whole room will be filled with curry.
#Some people just come for beautiful waitresses and seeing a robot might be a huge Turn Off.
Overall we feel there is lot into this robot waiter. There is lot more innovation involved. Let’s see how Infinium serve performs in Singapore with its robot waiter tag. For all those visiting Singapore take additional batteries in case your robot waiter slows down.
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