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On the photo, a restaurant in Guiyang, capital of China's Guizhou province, rolled out its new robotic wait staff. The woman is setting a table's location on the board at the robot's back. So it has to be programmed to move along a fixed path and carry food.

On the photo, a robot vendor next to the Apple store is promoting iPhone 6S, Palo Alto, California.

On the photo, a robot chef designed by Moley Robotics is cooking soup.

On the photo, robot nicknamed Pepper is widely used in a supermarket in Tokyo. It is promoting the Nestle brand demonstrating how to load coffee into a coffee machine.

On the photo, a robot is carrying a 30-kg weight.

On the photo, two robotic waiters are serving customers in a restaurant in Jinhua, China.

On the photo, a humanoid robot bartender named Carl is filling cocktail glasses with strong drinks at the Robots Bar and Lounge in Ilmenau, eastern Germany.

On the photo, a robot segwey is a self-balancing object which becomes a voice-recognising pal at the touch of a button. It is a two-wheeled balancing scooter that turns into an adorable mini robot butler when you are not riding it around town.

On the photo, a robot dressed in a kimono is advertising Toshiba-branded electronics in a department store in Tokyo.

On the photo, a robot astronaut is tested in a special cabin similar to a spacecraft. Such artificial friends are likely to help astronauts during space missions in the near future.