Fast-food restaurants are using robots 主题语境：人与社会———科学与技术 语篇导读：美国快餐店开始雇佣机器人来缓解用工荒难题。 ?????? American restaurants are employing robots to make up for a lack of fast-food workers. Businesses around the world are increasingly turning to reduce running costs — and fast-food restaurants are acting as pioneers of the robot revolution. Last year, we saw Flippy, the burger-flipping (翻转汉堡包的) robot, work in a Californian burger restaurant. And now US burger chain Wendy’s has begun using self-cleaning ovens (烤箱) in some stores, according to?The Wall Street Journal. Meaty restaurant chain Arby’s also uses smart ovens, which can cook roast beef and then switch to a?“holding”?mode (模式). This means employees can cook food for the next day the night before, rather than arrive at 7 am to start roasting. It’s an unsurprising response to a lack of fast-food workers. “I’ve never seen the labor (劳动力) market this tight,”?said Scotty Murphy, Chief Operating Officer for Dunkin’ Donuts.?“We spend a lot of time training people and a month later they walk out the door.” The US food and drink industry had 844,000 unfilled positions in April last year — a record high. ??? Dunkin’ Donuts has already automated some processes — like producing labels for food, and measuring the quality of coffee. “I don’t have to be always worried about other smaller tasks that were tiresome,” said Alexandra Guajardo, the leader at a Dunkin’ Donuts store in California. “I can focus on other things that need my attention in the restaurant.” ?????? A study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said food preparation faced the highest probability of automation among 88 industries. “In this market, employees will leave if they have one bad day,” Patrick Sugrue, Chief Executive Officer of Saladworks said. “If that happens, having this technology in place makes it easier to deal with.” From:?http://www.foxnews.com Robots in?Japan?give the disabled a chance to work 主题语境：人与社会———科学与技术 语篇导读：?由于身体原因无法外出工作怎么办？智能机器人来帮忙！ “Welcome to our Avatar Cafe,” said a real woman’s voice, coming from a robot. This was the Avatar Cafe “DAWN ver.β,” which was open from Nov. 26 to Dec. 7 last year in Tokyo, and the robots were being operated by people with serious physical disabilities (缺陷) working from their homes or elsewhere. Called OriHime-D, the cafe robots are different from AI robots. They are controlled remotely by people using a mouse or their eyes to operate a computer or other equipment. The robots have cameras that “see” their surroundings, and the operators can move them around and serve drinks. Operators can talk with customers through the microphone and speaker in the robots and take their orders. Ten people with serious disabilities took turns operating the robots. They received hourly pay for their work. One of them, 36-year-old Saeko Murai, said exc ... ...
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