Automation helping to cut costs, stirring debate over effect on jobs

Automation helping to cut costs, stirring debate over effect on jobs

The Yummy Future food truck, shown Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign, features a robot that makes coffee. URBANA — For the past couple weeks, a new food truck has showed up on the University of Illinois campus serving coffee.

Unlike other food trucks, however, this one is staffed by a robot.

"Each cup of coffee takes 40 seconds to make," said Guangzhe Cui, a grad student in electrical and computer engineering and co-founder of the company behind the food truck, Yummy Future.Customers enter their order on a touch screen, and a robot then […]

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