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Automatic shift

Automation is making headlines in industries around the world.

In the United Kingdom, British online supermarket Ocado is testing a prototype robotic arm to assist human warehouse workers pack fresh fruit quickly. At Melbourne’s Once Alike café, a manual robotic barista called Rocky was trialled in December 2017 to serve coffee and complete all the manual gestures a human barista would repeat. In November 2017, a Chinese robot became the world’s first machine to pass a written medical exam, scoring 96 points higher than the required marks.

In the words of its creator, Liu Qingfeng, Chairman of design company iFlytek,

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