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Wild About Tech, ChinaEven Loves Robot Waiters That Can’t Serve

China is ready for the future, even if thefuture hasn’t quite arrived.

China has become a global technological force injust a few years. It is shaping the future of the internet. Itstechnology ambitions helped prompt the Trump administration to start atrade war. Hundreds of millions of people in China now use smartphones to shop online, pay their bills and invest their money, sometimesin waysmore advanced than in the United States.

That hasled many people in China to embrace technology fulltilt, no matter how questionable. Robots wait on restaurant diners.Artificial intelligence marks up schoolwork. Facial recognitiontechnology helps dole out everything from Kentucky FriedChicken orders to toilet paper. China is in a competition with itself for the worldrecord for dancing robots

Alibaba, the Chinese online shopping giant, hasalso gotteninto the act, though in a more sophisticated way. At one of its new Hema grocerystoresin Shanghai, rolling robots take cooked food out onto asort of runway that connects the kitchen to seating. A team of waiters standing nearbysaid a human hand was required for soup and steamed dishes, lesttherobots inadvertently splash someone with hot liquid.

Robot restaurants have been popping up across China.Waiters said their automated counterparts caused more work than they saved.The robots also break down.Still, patrons were impressed.