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Related: About this forumFoxconn to manufacture robotic Airport coffee Baristas.
I'm not kidding.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/5/20851978/foxconn-briggo-partnership-wisconsin-airport-coffee-robots-automation
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Foxconn to manufacture robotic Airport coffee Baristas. (Original Post)
Ellipsis
Sep 2019
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I know it's the headline, but it's a stretch to refer to a kiosk as a robot.
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 2019
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mahatmakanejeeves
(60,971 posts)1. I know it's the headline, but it's a stretch to refer to a kiosk as a robot.
The article goes on to refer to these, much more accurately as "automated coffee dispensers."
TheRealNorth
(9,629 posts)2. Don't we have vending machines that already.do that?
Ellipsis
(9,183 posts)3. But, but, it has an arm and a touch screen and an app and stuff...
The point I guess really is they're deviating from the original busines plan with a concept that will take away more jobs.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. Hey,it is just a extension of the
Robotic Bartenders we have here in Vegas.
AllyCat
(17,105 posts)5. Whatever happened to all the good-paying jobs we paid extravagantly for?
I thought they were supposed to provide a gazillion good-paying jobs? Isn't that why the taxpayers gleefully handed over billions of dollars to them?
Horrible. I prefer a live human. We actually can talk to other humans.
milestogo
(17,833 posts)6. Will it bring down the price of Airport coffee?
Do we have to tip them?