‘Robotic’ China restaurant boss mimics android to serve delighted customers, goes viral globally


Trained dancer even manages to stop blinking during impersonation. Fascinated social media observers vow to visit hotpot restaurant. — SCMP

As debate rages over the ability of artificial intelligence, or AI, to replace human jobs, a hotpot restaurant owner in China has taken things to a new level.

The eatery entrepreneur in Chongqing municipality in the southwest of the country has become an online sensation with her innovative impersonation of a robot waitress.

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