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Sorin Adam Matei

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October 14, 2013

Humans Trump Robots at the Grocery Store, Yet Corporations Still Earn Money out of This

 Self check-out machines are slower than check out clerks and many think that the race against robots is not lost. Yet, the race is not humans vs. robots, but customers vs. corporations. The argument ignores a simple thing: slower check out “robots”…