South Korean cafe hires robot barista to help with social distancing

The new robot barista at a cafe in Daejeon, South Korea, is courteous and swift as it seamlessly makes its way towards customers. After managing to contain an outbreak of the new coronavirus that infected more than 11,000 and killed 269, South Korea is slowly transitioning from intensive social distancing rules towards what the government calls “distancing in daily life“. Robots could help people observe social distancing in public, said Lee Dong-bae, director of research at Vision Semicon, the smart fact