South Korea's ambitions for AI robots start with workers folding napkins

Workers at a five-star hotel fold napkins and wipe silverware with body cameras recording their every move. Their motions are then fed into a database that will one day teach a robot to do the same. Just as chatbots trained on vast troves of internet text, AI…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) His head, chest and hands strapped with body cameras, David Park deftly folded a banquet napkin the way he has thousands of times during his nine years at the five-star Lotte …

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