A video showing a waitress behaving like a robot and serving customers at a restaurant is being shared on social media.
What are the users saying?: Users have claimed it shows a robot waitress.
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But..?: It is not an actual robot. The video shows a human dancing and serving like a robot.
We found videos on the short-video hosting platform TikTok and news reports about the person in the video who serves customers by dancing like a robot at a restaurant in Chongqing city in China.
How did we find out?:
We noticed a TikTok username in the viral video.
Using a virtual private network (VPN), we looked for the username on TikTok in the viral video.
Here is a close-up of the username.
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We came across two videos of the person in the viral video in which she breaks out of character.
In this video, the supposed robot waitress is serving a customer. She eventually breaks out of that character and bursts into a laugh with the customer.
In another video, she can be seen mopping the floor. However, she breaks out of the robotic flow and starts mopping aggressively.
With a relevant keyword search, we came across two news reports by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) and Business Insider about a 'robot dancing' waitress at a restaurant in China.
SCMP reported that the name of the person in the video was Qin, who owned a hotpot restaurant in Chongqing, China.
Apart from this, Qin was also a professional street dancer. Using her dancing skills, she interacts and serves customers in a robotic feel at her restaurant.
Additionally, Business Insider also reported that it is not a robot but rather a human in the viral video.
Conclusion: It is clearly not a robot waitress serving customers in the viral video. Instead, a human who interacts and serves customers by doing a robotic-style dance at a hot pot restaurant in China.
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