What if a robot served my ice cream?

OriHime-D robots serve customers at the "Avatar Cafe DAWN in Tokyo, Japan.

Source: Yomiuri Shimbun

An ice cream parlour opened last week in Melbourne where customers no longer find a counter attendant “in the flesh”, but are instead served by a... robot.


Today we asked our listeners what they thought of this umpteenth "innovation" in the food industry and if in doing so the human element is further lost in interpersonal relationships.

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