Insights March 12th, 2019

Retail is being disrupted by new players launching without staff and a robots in the place of humans. While this is not commonplace in 2019, it certainly will be in 2029. Welcome to our Retail Briefing – Robots in Service.

The Future of Coffee: Robot Baristas (WSJ)

Automation is eliminating jobs for factory workers and Uber drivers—will your morning fix soon come from a precision caffeine machine? The Wall Street Journal’s Geoffrey A. Fowler tastes the new robot lattes at San Francisco’s Cafe X.

Restaurant’s Robot Makes The Perfect Burger (Insider)

At the Creator restaurant in San Francisco, artificial intelligence aims to create a perfect burger using only the freshest ingredients.
The burger creating and flipping robot makes the customizable burger from start to finish and could be the future of the restaurant industry.

Bionic Bar! Robotic Bartenders Mix Drinks on Quantum of the Seas

Robotic bartenders mix up your drinks at the Bionic Bar on Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas cruise ship. This is more spectacle and folly vs. efficiency and throughput but a fun application of robotics.

See more of Nikolas thoughts:
https://nikolasbadminton.com/future-trends-jazzy-jumping-robots/
https://nikolasbadminton.com/sex-robots-an-explicit-resource/

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Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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