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Robot To Take Food Orders Via Digital Wallets
- Mobile Commerce Daily, Thursday, May 26, 2016 9:05 AM
Pizza Hut in Asia plans to begin piloting a new in-store experience later this year that links a humanoid robot to MasterCard’s MasterPass digital wallet via a smartphone, enabling customers to place and pay for orders. MasterCard’s lab in Singapore build the first commerce application for SoftBank Robotics’ humanoid robot named Pepper. The integration with Pepper hopes to lay the groundwork for personalized robot-driven shopping and concierge services, in-aisle checkout and omnichannel services across hotels, banks, airports as well as restaurants and other customer service industries.
