Science Burger-flipping robot begins first shift

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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.

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.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Can we raise the minimum wage? I prefer to be served by perfect immortal computers instead of just pathetic little sacks of meat and bone.

 

[Lemmingwise]

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

We used to spend most people on farming, now only a tiny percentage need to farm.

The big shift is going to be self-driving cars, as driver is the most common job.

 

[DragoonSierra]

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

Wouldnt it be cheaper to create some sort of assembly line?

 

[Kosher Dill]

but will there be pleasure models?

Sure. Once they master flipping your burger, tossing your salad is the logical next step.

 

[Marco Fucko]

STOP THIS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE

 

[Some Manajerk]

STOP THIS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
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I dunno, I thought turning the Butlerian Jihad into a generic "humans Vs. Robots" war was a fantastic idea sarcasm

 

[MasterDisaster]

As someone that works in factory with robots I can say that getting replaced by robots is so far out it won't be in your lifetime.

 

[John Titor]

Burger bots will replace unskilled labor
Admits midvideo that it can still fuck up

Burger flippers are safe for now.

 

[QI 541]

Why flip the burger, just create a machine that presses a patty between two hot slabs of metal for a couple of minutes, easy burger machine.

 

[Puddleduck]

People have been REEing on about how technology is stealing jobs since colonial times, with the cotton ravelling machines in England. They were wrong then, and they'll continue to be wrong.

 

[Diesel Boogaloo]

Its just a PR move from some Company. There will be a way better solution for this problem. Building a robot arm is just exceptional.

Some SF guy already made a fully automated burger machine and is selling burgers. No silly robot arms in sight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YLK_F-3uTA
There are probably many more similar places, but that's just one example.

The burger-flipping arm is not a practical product, it is just to demonstrate the technology: precision, speed, coordination. But even then, the technology levels required for flipping burgers aren't that high.

 

[MasterDisaster]

Sex robot.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

But will it be paid $15 an hour?

 

[BrunoMattei]

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

For now. The technology will only get cheaper in time and if more corporations are buying the robots then that will bring down the price.

 

[Funky Weapon]

For now. The technology will only get cheaper in time and if more corporations are buying the robots then that will bring down the price.

There are arms on the market that start around 5k that would be fine for flipping burgers. They even come with Ipad ready programming apps.

Maybe when minimum wage is 20/hour, McDs or whoever will probably seriously look into robotic arms to replace chefs. The last two times i went to McDonalds, I didn't even order through a person. Just used the app and picked up my order. Automation is already making people unnecessary in fast food.

 

[Lioness]

IT BEGINS

 

[Sissy Galvez]

The push for $15/hr wages for burger flippers is accelerating the automation development. You’ll see fast food restaurants that are poor performers shutting down and automation going where the money is.

 

[Roast Chicken]

Lemme know when they come up with checkouts that can scan shopping as well as move it along a conveyor belt.

 

[Uterus Burns]

Wait until it poisons the burgers lol

 

[BrunoMattei]

Lemme know when they come up with checkouts that can scan shopping as well as move it along a conveyor belt.