When it comes to bringing you a slice, Pizza Hut's new robot can't be topped.
提到上菜,就不得不提最近引起关注的必胜客了。
We love pizza, and we love robots, so when the two come together it's something to get really excited about. A branch of Pizza Hut in South Korea has introduced a robot waiter to serve your slice, in an effort to increase its use of food-related technology, lessen staff pressures, and of course to attract the geeky and inquisitive to come in and eat at the restaurant.
我们爱吃披萨,也对机器人有好感,而这两项元素合在一起就更让人兴奋。韩国的一家必胜客分店最近引进了一名机器人服务员,想要以此来提高饮食业相关技术的使用率,从而减轻员工压力。同时这也是为了吸引喜欢尝鲜的人来。
The robot is called the Dilly Plate, and it has been created by South Korean food technology company Woowa Brothers. Pizza Hut hasn't agreed to employ the robot full time yet, and it has two weeks to prove itself.
这个机器人叫Dilly Plate,是由韩国食品科技公司Woowa Brothers制造的。必胜客尚未正式投入使用这个机器人,它还剩下两周的试用期。
Dilly Plate is considerably less humanoid, and a lot more functional in its design. There are no arms or legs, only a motorized platform with a plate on the top that holds your pizza. Presumably, you will have to do the heavy pizza lifting when Dilly arrives at your table, due to its lack of limbs. Dilly will be able to stack pizzas for efficient delivery, as it can hold 22kg of food.
Dilly Plate不算太人性化,更侧重于实用性。它没有胳膊和腿,只有一个机械化的平台,平台上是一个能置物的托盘,而Dilly到你桌前时你还需要自己把披萨拿走,因为它没有手和脚。但是Dilly可以叠放披萨,从而高效率地送餐,它甚至能拿动22kg的食物。
Woowa Brothers founder and CEO Kim Bong-jin teased the introduction of Dilly Plate - which he called an autonomous serving robot - in an interview recently, and sees it as an experiment to help compare how people and robots can work together in a service environment. In particular, how robots can be used for deliveries and collections in apartment complexes and other enclosed spaces.
Woowa Brothers的创始人兼首席执行官Kim Bong-jin在最近一次采访中拿Dilly Plate的试用开玩笑,他称其为“自助机器人”,并把它看作一个试验品,有助于弄清楚在服务场所人和机器人如何一起工作,尤其想看看机器人在公寓和其他场所是如何被使用的。
Pizza Hut is no stranger to robots in the workplace either, and had SoftBank's Pepper robot working in a branch in Singapore, where it took orders and made recommendations. The unnamed Pizza Hut store is located in southwest Seoul.
这也不是必胜客第一次在工作场所使用机器人,在新加坡一家分店也使用了机器人SoftBank's Pepper,它负责下单和提供点餐建议。上文没提到名字的必胜客店位于首尔西南部。