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Geez, as a Korean I routinely feel the western media likes to picture East Asia as some Sci-Fi world.

The mentioned ‘serving robots’ are just a table with wheels, nothing else. No reason for people to feel them as ‘companions’ or such. You just pick your menu in your tablet on the table, and when time passes, the food rolls over. This is not rocket science, people.

The mentioned ‘greeter robot’ is literally a tablet with wheels, and is useful because it doesn’t try to do anything clever; it’s really just a rolling kiosk, and people use them as such.

I mean, like come on. This isn’t anything headline worthy, especially not something to describe East Asians as people who routinely interact with ‘warm-hearted’ humanoid robots.

(Not to mention that 1/3 of the story is about a Japan-heavy robot-concept hotel chain… but that’s a different issue.)