{"id":7044,"date":"2019-10-04T11:23:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T01:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/?p=7044"},"modified":"2019-10-09T23:46:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T12:46:49","slug":"robots-serving-up-ice-cream-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/robots-serving-up-ice-cream-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots serving up Ice Cream in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australia\u2019s first ever robotic retail store has just opened up in Melbourne&#8230;and the robotic employees are serving up Ice Cream.\u00a0 \u00a0Take a look at the video below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Niska Robot Ice cream bar in Melbourne\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/znPfTR_K6Dc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/niska.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Niska<\/a>, offers a unique experience with Australian-made gourmet and artisan ice-cream served a team of robot attendants; Pepper, Eka and Tony. It is the nation\u2019s first ever robotic retail store located at Federation Square in Melbourne.\u00a0 I spoke with John Rieusset, Sector Lead for Food and Beverage for both the Robotics and Motion businesses at<br \/>\nABB in Australia about the technology behind these ice-cream scooping bots.\u00a0 Listen below.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7044-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.whooshkaa.com\/show\/5521\/episode\/430439.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.whooshkaa.com\/show\/5521\/episode\/430439.mp3\">https:\/\/media.whooshkaa.com\/show\/5521\/episode\/430439.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s first ever robotic retail store has just opened up in Melbourne&#8230;and the robotic employees are serving up Ice Cream.\u00a0 \u00a0Take a look at the video below. 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It is the nation\u2019s first ever robotic retail store located at Federation<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/robots-serving-up-ice-cream-in-melbourne\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824],"tags":[1885,1884,591],"class_list":["post-7044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abb","tag-niska","tag-robots","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Robots serving up Ice Cream in Melbourne - Tech Daily with Andy Wells<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/robots-serving-up-ice-cream-in-melbourne\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robots serving up Ice Cream in Melbourne - Tech Daily with Andy Wells\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Australia\u2019s first ever robotic retail store has just opened up in Melbourne&#8230;and the robotic employees are serving up Ice Cream.\u00a0 \u00a0Take a look at the video below. 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