I visited a temporary robot café, but it's not the type of Japanese robot café that comes to mind to most. Rather than a robotic show, this was a café where the robot waiters were in fact avatars for ...

Japan and Singapore are close to making it happen in the service industry. SoftBank Robotics (SBRG) and China's Keenon Robotics plan to work together to make robot waiters widely available in ...

The Dawn cafe in Japan hires disabled staff to control its robot waiters, providing new social and employment opportunities to citizens across the country. We meet Fumiko, a server who takes ...

Some have cat-like faces and even purr when you scratch their heads. But are robot waiters the future? It’s a question the restaurant industry is increasingly trying to answer. Many think robot ...