Outside, Enjoy Cafe resembles a normal café. One that lives in the area is frequented at breakfast or one that passers-by chooses for a cup of coffee, tea or wine at the evening clock. If you carefully look through the showcases, however, you will witness a scene from the future. One not very distant.
"Parked" at the entrance door is a plastic figure no more tall than a 6 year old child who invites people in with digitally programmed gestures. Her name is Pepper, a receiving robot, who can mimic sounds as well - from a cow's prick to the noise of two cars that collide. Pepper even knows to "dance" on rock music.
Undoubtedly, Pepper is the main attraction of the place. Children and adults are delighted by the friendly robot. Not alone, though. Once you sit at the tables, coffee shop guests are served by two robots of an adult's stature, who walk around the tables and take their orders. If someone is in their way, the person is praying, politely, to free the way.
Enjoy Cafe is a project specifically designed to attract future generations of engineers specializing in robotics. His goal is to encourage technology-fascinated children and robots to turn their passion into a craft. For this, small children are allowed to interact with robots, give them instructions or orders. They may be allowed to do flotation, for example, or dance on Gangnam Style. Pepper, the size of a kid's robot, is accepted by the children as one of their own. Adults are not as tolerant. Rather, I read in Pepper's kindness the beginning of the end for the human race.
Tibor Csizmazia, the owner of the cafeteria, cares to calm the worried Hungarians or tourists: "It's not what we see in a movie like The Terminator. Some imagine that robots think of people and act totally independently until they have come to completely control our lives. In fact, the robots are here to help us, just as they can help at the Enjoy Café. If robotics will advance so much that artificial intelligence systems work without any human help, this is far from today's technology . "