Re:A $33K robot barista serves 120 cups of coffee an hour
by ForHackernews on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:34AM
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Japan's population is crashing, so they need robots to take over jobs where there are no longer people to do those jobs. Because of immigration, the United States' population is rising and the economy is unable to provide sufficient stable well-paying jobs for all those who would like them.
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Re:A $33K robot barista serves 120 cups of coffee an hour
by kmlx on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:56AM
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i agree with you that automation is needed more today than in any other point in the history of Japan due to population constraints.
but Japan's automation efforts started half a century ago: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0166497294...