TOKYO -- Growing numbers of restaurant diners present new opportunities to a food service industry eager to bounce back from the pandemic. One problem, though, labor is scarce -- and expensive.
Enter Japan's robot makers, who are coming up with clever machines to replace some of that hard-to-find help behind the counter.






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