Alibaba Cloud Developer

May 4, 2018 · Artificial Intelligence

Can AI Turn Your Cafeteria Into a Cashless, Self‑Checkout Zone?

A hungry Alibaba engineer recounts how he leveraged visual‑recognition AI and IoT to build a robot that instantly identifies dishes on a tray, calculates prices, records nutritional data in the cloud, and won an IoT competition, promising a future of automated, data‑driven dining for thousands of employees.