Gaming supplier LT Game, the Macau-based subsidiary of Paradise Entertainment Limited, revealed in a press interview last week that it has already completed its human-like robot dealer, and is ready to deploy it.
The product is meant to address chronic manpower shortages in Macau casinos. Macau regulations only allow for residents to be employed as casino dealers.
“Local casinos lack manpower so we invented this machine in which we keep the fun of the game while avoiding the lack of manpower with this robot,” LT Game QA engineer Ross Zhang, told Macau Business on the opening day of the 2019 MGS Entertainment Show at The Venetian.
The group has displayed a planned prototype of a robot dealer since the Macau Gaming Show in 2015, with the last model named ADV2 LT Intelligent and now said to be under government licensing and testing period. The robot only possesses capabilities to distribute cards, without artificial intelligence function. “If we introduce any AI function into the machine we are raising an issue on whether the AI will influence the probabilities of the game. We just keep it simple; he just gives the cards,” Zhang said.
