What many of us haven’t expected is that robots can actually bring some much-needed relief for employees.
That’s at least the intent for Manik Sakya, the owner of the Nepal and Everest Nepal restaurants in Glenwood Springs.
“Now we’re happy, the employees are happy and the robots are happy,” Sakya said with a laugh.
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The pandemic meant restaurants and bars were forced to close doors, and since then it's been hard to find staff to fill the many vacancies left in its wake.
According to Zhai, the robots are being used for various roles: one is an usher that helps customers to seats, one delivers the food and another helps to collect dirty dishes. These robots have become such an integral part of the team that each even has a name.
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Over his 32-year police career in Dallas, Terrance Hopkins has seen tremendous changes in the profession. For rookie Black officers in a predominantly white and conservative field, he said, the prevailing feeling used to be that you were lucky to be allowed on the force.
You may have already seen them in restaurants: waist-high machines that can greet guests, lead them to their tables, deliver food and drinks, and ferry dirty dishes to the kitchen. Some have cat-like faces and even purr when you scratch their heads.
Robots are everywhere – improving how they communicate with people could advance human-robot ...
by Ramana Vinjamuri , University of Maryland, Baltimore County , [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission]
Figuring out how humans and robots can collaborate to effectively carry out tasks together is a rapidly growing area of interest to the scientists and engineers that design robots as well as the people who will use them. For successful collaboration between humans and robots, communication is key.
Robots could be good investment to mitigate loneliness among residents
Robots might be one answer for mitigating loneliness among seniors, suggest the results of a recent survey .
Doraiswamy is a professor at Duke University School of Medicine and a proponent of ElliQ , a companion robot for older adults.
When Sermo, a social platform for physicians, conducted a survey of 307 physicians across 25 countries and 40 specialties on the potential benefits/risks of companion robots to alleviate social isolation in older adults, 69% of doctors said they believed that robots could provide companionship ...
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