KFC opened their first ever fast food restaurant staffed entirely by an army of robots in Shanghai on April 25th. The restaurant, called Original +, features its own robot manager named “Du Mi” who greets guests at the front counter. “‘Du Mi’ marks the first commercial use of artificial intelligence in the fast food industry. The artificial intelligence robot was launched by China’s leading Web services company Baidu during its World Conference in 2015,” reports Sohu. Activistpost.com reports: KFC hopes that the hip new automated restaurant will attract young customers with its free wireless phone charging stations and human-less service. But it’s not just KFC, and it’s not just China where automation, robots, and artificial intelligence is taking the place of human workers. If and when these automated restaurants gain traction in places like China, they are sure to be implemented in the U.S. as well. In fact, they already are — though to a lesser extent, for now. McDonald’s and other food chains are experimenting with digital kiosks similar to the self-checkout machines already found in many grocery stores. In fact, as we covered recently at Anti-Media, automation is set to replace human jobs across broad sectors of the U.S. [...]