At This Fancy Budapest Cafe, Robot Waiters Shake A Leg, Serve Food & Also Chat With Customers

Humans fear that Artificial Intelligence will someday take over all jobs and leave us unemployed. But that fear is irrational,?after all, it's us humans that built them and if anything they only make our?lives easier. That's not all. Turns out, they make for pretty good company, too.

Like these efficient robots at a Budapest cafe that are such fun to hang with.

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At the Enjoy Budapest Cafe, robot waiters can do it all: they can serve food and drinks, tell jokes, dance with the kids or just hang out with customers for a chat, reports Reuters.?

The cafe, opened by IT company E-Szoftverfejleszto in the Hungarian capital, is staffed by a whole team of robots that aim to help familiarise the public with the technological revolution in automation and artificial intelligence.

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The robot waiters follow fixed paths to deliver food and drink orders to customers, who are asked to keep out of the robots’ way.

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Others serve up entertainment. Pepper, a receptionist robot can hold a conversation and also dance with customers.

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Developed by Japanese company Softbank, Pepper needed to be modified to be able to hear customers in the noisy environment of a cafe, owner Tibor Csizmadia said.

Going by online reviews customers appear to be charmed by Pepper’s antics and were even forgiving of the laborious service style of her waiter colleagues.

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Despite fears that increasing automation and artificial intelligence will take away employment from humans, Enjoy Budapest Cafe’s robots aren’t putting anyone out of a job yet.

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"We actually employ twice as many people as before, because to operate 16 to 20 robots from 9am to 9pm, we need to have IT specialists in the background," Csizmadia says.

Inputs Reuters