Saw a robot making coffee at the airport in Austin

I was at the Austin airport yesterday and they had this new coffee kiosk run by a robot arm. It made my latte in about 90 seconds, and the foam art was a perfect little leaf. It got me wondering how many other service jobs are getting this kind of AI upgrade right now. Has anyone else seen something like this in another city?

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josephs268d ago

Isn't that just automation, not AI?

sam_harris688d ago

Yeah josephs26 has a point about calling it just automation. But the line gets blurry when the system starts making choices it wasn't directly told to make. Old automation follows a set path, but if it can adapt to new stuff on its own, that's where the AI part comes in. People throw the term around too much for simple scripts though lol. It's like calling a calculator smart just because it does math.