This is John Kennedy with another Postcard from Abroad from the University of Kansas.
From the outside, Enjoy Café in Budapest looks like any other ordinary restaurant. However, just inside the café, a child-sized robot named “Pepper” greets customers and wins them over with his charm and antics. Little Pepper is assisted by a duo of adult-sized robots, who glide between tables to deliver Hungarian cuisine to their guests. Enjoy Café is the first cafe in the world with robotic staff and was opened by IT company E-Szoftver Fejlesztő. The company’s owner hopes to familiarize the public with automation and artificial intelligence, and inspire children to become future robotics engineers. Not only can you turn to Budapest for its stunning architecture and cultural sites, but also the dependability of its wait staff, who we hear always report to work… even when they catch a virus!
With thanks to Lisa Giullian from the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies for this text, this is John Kennedy. Wish you were here.
