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So long, salad bar: Grocers get creative, consider robots to revive prepared food
Grocery stores have shut down self-serve salad bars during the pandemic. They’ve taken away displays of fresh olives and dips. And they’ve replaced giant kettles of ready-to-ladle hot soup with sealed to-go containers.
The deli and prepared food areas that used to draw traffic to stores and differentiate grocers have fallen from favor as customers worry about the spread of the coronavirus, cook more from scratch and try to limit their time in stores.
Grocers are trying to revive those parts of the store with new approaches. At Publix, salad bars and hot bars have reopened, but employees dish out each item. Wegmans moved hummus, olives and more behind a counter where cheese shop employees fill orders. And at Texas-based H-E-B, some coolers carry prepared meals from local restaurants and a former food bar became an ice chest of beers.
So long, salad bar
Robotic waiter makes some restaurant customers recoil
San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill
The vote was 8-3, with the majority agreeing to grant police the option despite strong objections from civil liberties and other police oversight groups. Opponents said the authority would lead to the further militarization of a police force already too aggressive with poor and minority communities.
San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill
San Francisco changes course amid public outrage
Man a ‘little traumatized’ by security guard beatdown in subway
Neighbors remain concerned over triple deadly shooting in Palm Springs
Suspect held after another California mass shooting
8 people shot, 1 killed at gas station
New York City to introduce robot dogs
"The future of fire safety and rescue courtesy of the @FDNY," tweeted the mayor on Thursday
New York City to introduce robot dogs
Is robot therapy the future?
It makes sense doesn’t it? It makes kind, thoughtful sense to democratise therapy, a service previously only widely available to the wealthy, especially at a time of unprecedented suffering. This was the purpose when in 2008 the NHS launched its Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme – “The most ambitious programme of talking therapies in the world.” It was designed to make therapy more accessible and if you call your GP with anxiety today, you are likely to be referred to an IAPT. If you search for therapy apps on your phone, you can download hundreds of services ranging from adult colouring books and feelings diaries to Woebot, an AI chatbot that uses CBT techniques and Minions GIFs to improve users’ moods. The therapy industry is thriving.
Is robot therapy the future?
A Florida restaurant chain says staff got bigger tips after it hired a robot
My mother thought the robot was a runaway baby carriage and ran after it. 20-Oct-2021
Are gay, erotic robot companions the future of equality?
An American adult toy company has unveiled what it deems the boyfriend of the future: life-sized sex dolls designed as adult companions.
Are gay, erotic robot companions the future of equality?
A new study has confirmed that gay and bisexual men earn less money than their heterosexual male peers.
An Italian tennis player has blamed humid weather conditions for a series of anti-gay outbursts
Food truck tires slashed after attending Pride event in North Carolina, owner says
Nathan Chen apologises for saying figure skating is a “homosexual-dominated sport”
‘This is extreme transphobia’
R. KELLY TO JUDGE Nix McDonald's Evidence ... JURY MIGHT BE ANTI-LGBT!!!
Gay couple pushed into oncoming traffic in horrifying attack
Fox News drops analyst Andrew Napolitano after Larry Kudlow producer accused him of stroking his arm and making sexually suggestive comments in an elevator
Christian with rock threatens gay city official with stoning in public meeting
Sex robot with ‘bionic penis’ that can be programmed gay is coming soon
New sex robots from leading AI robotics company RealDoll will be programmable as gay or straight, depending on your preference.
Sex robot with ‘bionic penis’ that can be programmed gay is coming soon
Machines can do most of a psychologist’s job. The industry must prepare for disruption
Psychology and other “helping professions” such as counselling and social work are often regarded as quintessentially human domains. Unlike workers in manual or routine jobs, psychologists generally see no threat to their career from advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Economists largely agree. One of the most wide-ranging and influential surveys of the future of employment, by Oxford economists Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, rated the probability that psychology could be automated in the near future at a mere 0.43%. This work was initially carried out in 2013 and expanded upon in 2019.
We are behavourial scientists studying organisational behaviour, and one of us (Ben Morrison) is also a registered psychologist. Our analysis over the past four years shows the idea psychology cannot be automated is now out of date.
Psychology already makes use of many automated tools, and even without significant advances in AI we foresee significant impacts in the very near future.
Machines can do most of a psychologist’s job. The industry must prepare for disruption
Bodybuilder may spend holidays alone after sex-doll wife is ‘broken’
With the sound of wedding bells still fresh in his mind, all Yuri Tolochko wanted for Christmas was some romance amid jingle bells with his sex-doll bride.
But, alas, dear Margo has apparently broken down — possibly spoiling the couple’s yuletide plans, according to the Daily Star.
The kooky bodybuilder from Kazakhstan, who tied the knot with the rubber doll after an eight-month courtship, now has to wait to see if her broken bits can be fixed on time.
Bodybuilder may spend holidays alone after sex-doll wife is ‘broken’
He cheated with a human so she threw herself down the stairs like her manual says. 24-Dec-2020
Study Shows People Prefer Robot Over Their Boss: 6 Ways To Be A Leader People Prefer
These are stressful times—among the most stressful in history—and people need help. Often, they turn to their employers and specifically their leaders. But they don’t always get what they need. A new global study reports people actually prefer robots to humans for help with mental health issues. So what’s going on, and how can leaders be more empathetic, supportive and preferable to robots?
It’s important to know the issues plaguing employees are significant. In a just-released global study involving more than 12,000 people across 11 countries by Oracle and Workplace Intelligence, 78% of people reported their mental health had been negatively affected during the pandemic. In addition, people said stress, anxiety and depression were reducing their productivity (42%) and increasing poor decision making (40%).
And interestingly, 68% say when they have stress or anxiety at work, if given a choice between a robot or their boss, they would rather talk to a robot than their own manager. While the results may not indicate our future managers will all be robots, they do illustrate important ways leaders can improve and support their employees.
Study Shows People Prefer Robot Over Their Boss: 6 Ways To Be A Leader People Prefer
US ARMY SCIENTIST BRAGS THAT HE’S TRYING TO BUILD THE BAD GUY FROM “TERMINATOR 2”
An Army engineer working on soft robotics says that his work is directly inspired by the T-1000, the shape-shifting (and fictional) robot villain from the 1991 James Cameron blockbuster “Terminator 2.”
Frank Gardea, an aerospace engineer at the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory, is leading a project to develop robotics out of flexible, self-repairing and self-reconfiguring materials, according to Military.com.
Gardea envisions self-repairing drones and other uncrewed aircraft, but the ultimate goal is machines with the “reconfiguration characteristics of the T-1000 character in the Hollywood film, ‘Terminator 2,'” he said in a release.
US ARMY SCIENTIST BRAGS THAT HE’S TRYING TO BUILD THE BAD GUY FROM “TERMINATOR 2”
We need legislation against ‘killer robots,’ Human Rights Watch says
It’s a Hollywood blockbuster premise rooted in our not-so-distant future.
For decades, robot thrillers such as “The Terminator,” “Blade Runner” and “Westworld” have warned viewers that our reliance on artificial intelligence is a real threat to civilization. Now, real-life researchers with the Human Rights Watch are sounding the alarm on potentially world-ending “killer robots,” according to a new report.
The message comes as part of their Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, which calls for a global ban on “fully autonomous weapons.”
We need legislation against ‘killer robots,’ Human Rights Watch says