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These are the droids you're looking for: Softbank launches Japan cafe staffed by bots www.theregister.co.uk

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 4 years, 4 months ago

If you thought the service at your local Starbucks was robotic and impersonal, you might want to give Softbank’s newest Tokyo cafe a miss.
Working alongside the company’s meatbag workers are a small army of Softbank Robotics’ droids, who’ll help serve and entertain the punters, and will even clean up after them.
The new cafe, called Pepper PARLOR, seats 162 and is located in the Tokyu Plaza Shibuya.
As the name suggests, Softbank’s humanoid robot, Pepper, plays a starring role, with ten of these bots spread across the cafe.
Accompanying Pepper is Softbank Robotics’ NAO robots, which perform delicately choreographed dances while you eat.