Pepper the robot gets a job at Pizza Hut
SoftBank’s Pepper robot has been gainfully employed in the past, but it’s apparently ready for a new career in the food industry. Pizza Hut Asia is partnering with MasterCard on a trial that will use Pepper for orders and information in restaurants by the end of 2016. Once you pair your MasterPass account, you can do everything from paying for your meal to asking about the calorie count. It’s not necessarily as quick as ordering directly from your phone, but a demo (below) suggests that it’s fairly painless — it’s easy to see the humanoid helper taking some of the load off of Pizza Hut’s staff. Let’s just hope that it fares well in less-than-ideal conditions.
Source: MasterCard
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