Automatic shift
Apr 14, 2018
4 minutes
Maurizio Marcocci is the Director of Service Sphere.
Automation is making headlines in industries around the world.
In the United Kingdom, British online supermarket Ocado is testing a prototype robotic arm to assist human warehouse workers pack fresh fruit quickly. At Melbourne’s Once Alike café, a manual robotic barista called Rocky was trialled in December 2017 to serve coffee and complete all the manual gestures a human barista would repeat. In November 2017, a Chinese robot became the world’s first machine to pass a written medical exam, scoring 96 points higher than the required marks.
In the words of its creator, Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of design company iFlytek,
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