High tech

Robots doing service jobs服务机器人

The most common first encounter is a hotpot restaurant where a wheeled robot brings the plates to the table, which is now unremarkable enough in Chinese cities that nobody looks up. Beyond that: hotel delivery robots that take an item to your room and call the lift themselves, unmanned convenience stores that charge you as you walk out, automated pharmacies, and increasingly humanoid robots in demonstration roles — Unitree's machines have become a fixture of Chinese variety television. The point is less any individual machine than how quickly the novelty wore off.