A.I. robot serves customers at Seoul restaurant amid coronavirus restrictions

An Italian-themed restaurant in Seoul is now promising the safe delivery of food to tables, keeping in line with coronavirus-proof social distancing measures, not done humans, but by robots. “Aglio Kim“, a (4.1 ft) trolley-like robot which uses artificial intelligence (A.I.) developed by South Korean telecoms company KT Corp, brings the food and uses its visual SLAM (simultaneous localisation and mapping) capabilities to avoid obstacles and navigate around customers. The robot can deliver food to up to four tables at once, KT’s AI Platform Business Team leader Lee Young-jin told Reuters. The A.I. robot is equipped with food trays which can carry up to 30 kilograms and an LCD screen and speaker that communicate in both Korean and English. “Customers found the robot serving quite unique and interesting, and also felt safe from the coronavirus,“ said Lee Young-ho, a manager at the Mad for Garlic restaurant which has tested the robot this month. Mad for Garlic has two of the same trolly-like