Remote Control

摘要

DAVID TEJEDA HELPS deliver food and drinks to tables at a small restaurant in Dallas. And another in Sonoma County, California. Sometimes he lends a hand at a restaurant in Los Angeles too. All at the same time. He does this work from his home in Belmont, California, by tracking the movements and vital signs of robots that roam each establishment, bringing entrees from kitchen to table and shuttling dirty dishes back. Once in a while he needs to help a lost robot reorient itself. "Sometimes it's human error, someone moving the robot or something," Tejeda says. In that case, he looks through the bot's camera to find a landmark, like a certain piece of art on the wall, to get his own bearings, enabling him to maneuver the machine to the right spot.