Robot waiters serve food and dance moves in Thailand, secretly plotting humiliation revenge
By Richard Lai 
posted April 4th 2010 4:31AM
posted April 4th 2010 4:31AM
posted April 4th 2010 4:31AM
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So what would be the tipping rate of a robot?
Autobots won't be happy with this article. Trust me.
@insky
40% or your head
BTW that food looks good
@insky 1 pint of engine oil
@insky samurai turned waiter!
@staticjethro
Transformers were built to serve. They performed domestic work.
It is the Decepticons, as soldiers, who would be most insulted by this mockery of a warrior tradition.
@insky one pint of olde fortran malt liquor
instead of tipping, you leave some batteries, or just taze um bro
@staticjethro what makes you think he is not a autobot ? but a decepticon ?
Thailand is not part of the far east...
@pk It is pretty damn far east. That's all that matters for illiterate Americans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_east
my bad I thought far east = east asia...
@Raul7 Surely the fact that it is in the Far East is all that matters for "illiterate americans". Europeans coined that phrase to describe the region anyway.
@Raul7 I would say, as an illterate American living in Asia, though it doesn't matter we can have a different definition of far east. After all, it can be a region, somewhat absolute and a very similar definition, or a relative placement from America (meaning the far east would start sooner than it would for someone living more east.)
Additionally, since it is less commonly used these days, it has the potential to have both a historic connotation, but also a dynamical aspect as language evolves overtime and as language is dropped from our daily vernacular it tends to lose a bit of its original meaning.
But, unless you were joking, you can criticize since you seem to want to act pompous.
@pk It's sad that "illiterate Americans" comment was highest rated even though Thailand IS part of the Far East.
In case of a doubt... talk shit about scumbag Americans and you'll look cool
@Raul7 sure raul may be next time look up the def. for illiterate since you definitely don't know how to use it. but again maybe people where you're from just stare at the screen of Engadget forums instead of READING them. So just because somebody doesn't happen to know the location of every freaking country in the world it doesn't make them illiterate. That's just a cheap shot my friend. Of course I am sure if I were to ask you about any country of the world you would know exactly everything about it because you're so darn literate that you go around reading every atlas there is. So, this is for you to read next time you wanna talk trash, if you don't have anything informative to say in a forum then shut it. Like me I just taught you what the word illiterate means since you haven't read the def. in the net yet. I am out big "L".
loloololoololool plotting humiliation revenge
ha, newspaper was faster!
We need these in Japan. :)
You know, In Thailand they have robot policemen too.
@omoi113 Not robots but creepy full-sized figures. Last thing we need here is corrupt robots too.
My god I'm in bed before sleep using my iPad to view Engadget, it's amazing!
@SchneiderMac Good for you!, I'm jealous =)
@SchneiderMac So erm... could you view those 2 videos of the robots on this page ?
@alex2ex
Ditto that.
@chriszzz
The ipad has a youtube app, doesn't it?
@chriszzz Yes they play right in the page
@Sam5959 IT doesn't play in the YT app, it plays right in the page.
weird. I guess they work well for places like all you can eat bbq where they continuously bring out dishes of raw food.
I for one welcome our Robotic (Servants) Overlords ..
another 2 beers ...
@goseki yea me too i welcome them ,I like to say i can be useful to our overlords by rounding up human slaves for there factories,use as batteries in powerplants etc,all hail the samurai robot overlords
Soon the dream of having robot slaves is getting closer
Imagine having one doing all the house work and also sitting in your office at work donig your job, while you relax in bed watching TV
@OCEAN CLAK ... plus another in bed with you giving you intimate strokes... until it decides to rip your organ off, that is.
Cool, I live in Bangkok, will have to check it out. Never heard about it before. Awkward location though. Glad its Shabu-Shabu, not a sushi fan. Shame i didn't read before could have gone tonight, maybe next weekend.
@thom22 dee maak!
i'll be checking this place out for sure
If you were planning on a career as a waiter or waitress, you might want to explore some other options. Lets see: no pay,no benefits, no sick days, no breaks, works 24/7 and only requires the occasional tune-up? Witness the future.
@nachotech This should give those morons that think there's a "minimum accepted level of tipping" something to think about.
@ToniCipriani
90% of the servers out there don't deserve a tip anyway. And the industry has been crying about it for so long now, that you cant feel sorry for a moron that gets a job as a server and expects to live off tips. Here's a tip, find a real job. We have mexicans for that sorta crap.
number five "arive"
I'm so going there in a few months........
You can hire a real waiter/waitress in Bangkok for less than $10 a day, so this is a bit bizarre. But would probably work well in the West.
@mjones41 but the human waiters would don red shirts and go out protesting instead of working, you know, waiting on tourists... oh wait... there are no tourists...
I thought human labor was cheap in Thailand....
Reminds me of the "Loader Droid" from Imperial Freighter Suprosa in Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire for N64
is that the Shin-Chan theme song?