Robots are making French fries faster會炸薯條的機器人

胡金瑩

主題語境：科技進步 篇幅：344詞 建議用時：6分鐘

1 Fried foods like French fries and onion rings are going hightechbecause MisoRobotics Inc has released its Flippy 2 robot. The robot automates the process of deepfryingfood like potatoes and onions.

2 The robot uses a large robotic arm like those used in auto plants and it is directed bycameras and artificial intelligence. Flippy 2 takes frozen French fries and other foods out ofa freezer， puts them into hot oil， and then places them readytoserveinto a container.

3 Flippy 2 can cook several meals with different cooking processes at the same time.Miso says this reduces the need for employees and speeds up the time for people to gettheir food at drivethroughwindows. When an order comes in through the restaurant system，it automatically tells Flippy 2 what to do. It does it faster， more accurately， more reliablyand more happily than most humans do it.

4 At first when a robot was put in a location， buyers would come up and order. Theypreferred to take pictures， videos， or ask a bunch of questions. But the second time theycame in， they seemed not to even notice it.

5 Misos engineers can watch Flippy 2 robots working in real time on a screen， whichpermits them to deal with any problems that come up. Up to now， several restaurant chainshave started using the robotic fry cook. Bell said the jobs that humans are happiest tooffload are jobs like the fry station. He added that workers are happy to have help so theycan do other things.

6 Miso Robotics has around 90 engineers. They mainly work on new technology orwork on computer language. One of the companys next projects is Sippy， which is a?drink?making robot that will take an order from a buyer and prepare drinks， includingpreparing things like the lid and the straw.

7 Bell said that in the future， people will walk into a restaurant and look at a robot andsay，“Hey， remember the old days when humans used to do that kind of thing？”

Reading Check

Gist

1. What does paragraph 2 mainly talk about？

A. The robots function.

B. The robots appearance.

C. The robots intelligence.

D. The robots working process.

Inference

2. What does the underlined word“it”refer to in paragraph 3？

A. The robot. B. The order.

C. The fried food. D. The restaurant system.

Detail

3. How could engineers monitor the robot？

A. Through a screen. B. Through a camera.

Inference

4. What does Bell expect of the future restaurant？

A. Humans will not visit it. B. It will record the past days.

C. Humans cant equal robots. D. It will be operated by robots.

Language Study

Difficult sentence

One of the companys next projects is Sippy， which is a drinkmakingrobot that willtake an order from a buyer and prepare drinks， including preparing things like the lid andthe straw. 該公司接下來的項目之一是Sippy，一個飲料制造機器人，它將接受買家的訂單并準備飲料，包括準備蓋子和吸管等東西。

【點石成金】本句中，which 引導的為非限制性定語從句；that will take an orderfrom a buyer and prepare drinks為that引導的定語從句；including preparing things likethe lid and the straw為介詞短語作狀語。