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Restaurant robots to the rescue

An employee of sushi restaurant Hamazushi interacts with Pepper during a press preview in Saitama, Japan on February 2, 2017.
An employee of sushi restaurant Hamazushi interacts with Pepper during a press preview in Saitama, Japan on February 2, 2017. Photo: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP (Getty Images)

When used in a restaurant, Pepper could take your order or help you find a table. But restaurant robots had been tried before, especially in the 1980s, and fizzled out back then as well.