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Flippy, a burger-flipping robot, has begun work at a restaurant in Pasadena, Los Angeles.

It is the first of dozens of locations for the system, which is destined to replace human fast-food workers.

The BBC's North America technology reporter Dave Lee saw it in action.
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It was just a matter of time. If anything, I don't know what's stopping fast food restaurants to fully automate their food cooking process, top to bottom.
 
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Reliability is still a huge issue for robotics though, I don't think this will be ready for the big time for at least a decade.
 
Ahriman said:
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It was just a matter of time. If anything, I don't know what's stopping fast food restaurants to fully automate their food cooking process, top to bottom.
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Probably because fixing that thing will require an entire years wage of a rando off the street hobo

Robots like that work great for precision engineering of expensive shit and economies of scale. The average mcdonalds wont sell anywhere near enough burgers to justify it.

At the end of the day it's cheaper and easier to teach Jose to put cheese on a party and a patty on a bun then it is to hire an IT company to teach a complicated machine to do things and then provide round the clock maintenance and security at all hours
 
mindlessobserver said:
Robots like that work great for precision engineering of expensive shit and economies of scale. The average mcdonalds wont sell anywhere near enough burgers to justify it.
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Its just a PR move from some Company. There will be a way better solution for this problem. Building a robot arm is just retarded.
 
I'm reminded of a sociology professor I had a while ago. He spent most of the time going on about how robots are stealing jobs and we're all doomed. What many don't recognize is that these robots people think will steal your jobs often create more jobs in the long term. ATMs didn't doom bank related workers, they allowed for less expensive bank operation and thus resulted in more banks and overall more jobs. Whether that will be the case with this thing remains to be seen, but I'm not too concerned even if it somehow does end up taking off.

"And if you engineering and computer science majors think you're safe, what'll you do when robots start programming themselves, huh? You'll be sorry then!"
 
mindlessobserver said:
Probably because fixing that thing will require an entire years wage of a rando off the street hobo

Robots like that work great for precision engineering of expensive shit and economies of scale. The average mcdonalds wont sell anywhere near enough burgers to justify it.

At the end of the day it's cheaper and easier to teach Jose to put cheese on a party and a patty on a bun then it is to hire an IT company to teach a complicated machine to do things and then provide round the clock maintenance and security at all hours
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Not only that, what if they make a newer model and leave the older model as obsolete? I assume that fast food locations in larger areas would upgrade when available, but those of a smaller population would might just stick to the older model and hope that it doesn't break down and have to shell out for a part at a larger price than during its initial run.
 
The McDonald's in my area isn't even advanced enough to install a proper two-car drive through, let alone robot workers.
 
Personally, I wish him the best of luck and commend him for finding employment.
 
King Buzzo said:
Not only that, what if they make a newer model and leave the older model as obsolete? I assume that fast food locations in larger areas would upgrade when available, but those of a smaller population would might just stick to the older model and hope that it doesn't break down and have to shell out for a part at a larger price than during its initial run.
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We will never run out of a need for menial labor. The problem is we are running out of people willing to DO the menial labor. The University bubble is largely to blame for this IMO. We got a ton of people coming out with higher education expecting to be able to do high end stuff when there has been and always will be a limit on the need for such specialized positions. The other issue has been our cultural shift towards disdaining menial labor in general. Historically, America never really looked down on people willing to work. Its what raised the Chinese and Irish from subhumans to actual people in the cultural zeitgeist after all. They were willing to help build the railroads and other supremely useful but menial shit.

Hell, anyone who spends 30 minutes in a starbucks can appreciate just how many complicated tasks (from an engineering standpoint) those baristas have to accomplish in the span of 5 minutes during a busy period. There is absolutely no way existing technology can deliver what those people do as cheaply or efficiently. In general people really don't appreciate how complicated flipping a burger or making a latte actually is, because our brains are such complex biological computers it makes the action seem so mind numbingly EASY. But it really is not. Programing a robot to turn the fucking flat top on to the correct temperature and adjusting as needed will take hours if not days. something your random sped off the street can learn in 5 minutes.

This is actually something I encourage people to do. Stop assuming things about the world around you and look at it critically. Sit in a Starbucks for 30 minutes and actually study how complicated the various tasks those graduated gender studies students actually have to accomplish.
 
mindlessobserver said:
We will never run out of a need for menial labor. The problem is we are running out of people willing to DO the menial labor. The University bubble is largely to blame for this IMO. We got a ton of people coming out with higher education expecting to be able to do high end stuff when there has been and always will be a limit on the need for such specialized positions. The other issue has been our cultural shift towards disdaining menial labor in general. Historically, America never really looked down on people willing to work. Its what raised the Chinese and Irish from subhumans to actual people in the cultural zeitgeist after all. They were willing to help build the railroads and other supremely useful but menial shit.

Hell, anyone who spends 30 minutes in a starbucks can appreciate just how many complicated tasks (from an engineering standpoint) those baristas have to accomplish in the span of 5 minutes during a busy period. There is absolutely no way existing technology can deliver what those people do as cheaply or efficiently. In general people really don't appreciate how complicated flipping a burger or making a latte actually is, because our brains are such complex biological computers it makes the action seem so mind numbingly EASY. But it really is not. Programing a robot to turn the fucking flat top on to the correct temperature and adjusting as needed will take hours if not days. something your random sped off the street can learn in 5 minutes.

This is actually something I encourage people to do. Stop assuming things about the world around you and look at it critically. Sit in a Starbucks for 30 minutes and actually study how complicated the various tasks those graduated gender studies students actually have to accomplish.
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Is talking to their co-worker when they are supposed to be making my goddamn frappucino part of this? This is why I make my own coffee.
 
Hm not surprised in the slightest. Not trying to sound like elitist trash but maybe at least the robots will give me the food I fucking ordered.
 
kidatari said:
minimum wage goes up next year here in California
so, if there is money to be made and save, Fast Food companies will start to replace humans with robots.

but will there be pleasure models?
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oh yesss. I sound like a loser but I'd pay big money to have robot fulfill my sexual desires.
 

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I always felt like replacing workers with machines was a short-sighted idea. Burger flipping robots and self-checkout machines don’t circulate their wages back into the economy, and generally speaking neither do the unemployed.
 
Looks like a novelty thing to attract customers since all it can do is flip the burgers and requires a human to actually assemble the burger. Furthermore, a human is required to place the patty and cheese.
 
Testaclese Maximus said:
I always felt like replacing workers with machines was a short-sighted idea. Burger flipping robots and self-checkout machines don’t circulate their wages back into the economy, and generally speaking neither do the unemployed.
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True that.I consider myself to be a capitalist and we need low IQ retards to take their place in society.
 
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