DALIAN, China -- At a hotel in Shanghai, a staffer placed a packaged meal into a robotic waiter and entered the room number of a suspected coronavirus patient on the waiter's touch screen. The robot then automatically made its way to the room.
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A robot delivers food to diners at a restaurant, following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease, in Shanghai. © Reuters
DALIAN, China -- At a hotel in Shanghai, a staffer placed a packaged meal into a robotic waiter and entered the room number of a suspected coronavirus patient on the waiter's touch screen. The robot then automatically made its way to the room.