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Great. All that's needed now is to make robots that buy and eat that fast food that the other robots are making.
#2 seems waaaaaaaaayyyyyy more likely to happen
#2 seems waaaaaaaaayyyyyy more likely to happen
When that thing jams like a printer it's going to be a nightmare
When that thing jams like a printer it's going to be a nightmare
BURGER OVERLOAD!!! PICKLE SLICES ON THE WALLS AHHHH
Now that money is speech and corporations are people, #2 is seemingly inevitable in the US.
Yup, there is some touch ups in PS.the lefts really aren't photoshops. Just very carefully set up studio photographs. Probably some PS.
and yea, fast food doesn't look as bad on the right in the US either. Definitely exaggerated.
Janitors have very high job security.
How is every responses so far not laughing at how poorly this will work?
This robot doesn't make fries, onion rings, chicken, drinks, ice cream, fish, salads, juice, breakfast, or anything else thats a staple of fast food. They'll still need to employ the same amount of people to cover for all the things this robot doesn't do. It's not likely to handle the large variety of burgers that come with different sized patties and buns with different condiments and limited time or specialty foods will be a nightmare. Standard custom orders that aren't explicitly on the menu and change from region to region will be almost impossible to account for in the robots design. There's still a long way to go before this is remotely feasible without completely rehauling the system.
I see everyone being pessimistic but imagine if it doesn't turn out too bad. I still see a lot of people working at supermarkets despite an increase in self-checkout isles and maybe this has lead to people being diverted to the stockrooms, offering new services like cooked food and newer jobs. If these robots become more popular and things like Pizzas from vending machines increase could people instead do things like urmm..... cleaning, maintenance and.... OK i am kinda stuck. Maybe these robots could become cheaper and smaller businesses could adopt them and maybe some entrepenaurialship and.... OK i am chatting bollocks now. I don't know how this can end out well. But i do remember people complaining that technological advancement from computers would put people out of work for simple data entry tasks and shit like that. But look at how rarely you need to speak to an operator to put a call through, look at how the money you save from Amazon allows you to purchase more shit, how many more jobs the internet has created etc etc.
None of those food items sound like they couldn't get cooked, prepared, and served by robots.
Sure "a" robot could do it, but not "this" robot. Until they can make a fast food super robot that does it all or a series of highly compact specialized robots that can fit into the same spaces currently available it's a waste for any fast food restaurant to even consider. They'd also need to be incredibly low maintenance and have next to zero chance of malfunction. If you're burger machine goes down during lunch you can't afford 45 minutes to access and repair it. There's a reason people who work in fast food can do just about every job.
I don't even think you need a robot for something as basic as cooking and assembling pre-prepared ingredients. Theoretically, it can be done with some type of assembly line. So a bun is dropped, toasted, while a burger is heated up or fried and flipped in one of three chambers (chicken, beef, vegetarian) and slid onto the bun, sause is squirted on, then vegetables.
Or whatever, you get the idea.
McDonalds has some crazy drink machine that is cool to watch.
Robots gotta be better than what's there now.
Air said:I don't mind. I think people are their best when they do creative things and express themselves, having robots do mundane things like making crappy burgers will only help other people focus their energy on being creative. Obviously there'll be growing pains, but I can't really see how you could avoid that, or why one would want to continue to work in this kind of environment of mediocrity. (unless your passion is flipping burgers, but than you can make a "hanks home made flipped burgers business" and be done with it).
Anyway, I think this is a good thing.
Looks like I'm out of a job.
Wow, what kind of fantasy world do you live in?
Here's a good reason - hunger.
I can't wait until robot cars become common and I can use a smartphone app to order a taxi right to my GPS pin-pointed location, get driven to my destination based on the most efficient route being fed to the robot taxi by crowd-sourced traffic data, and then have my credit card debited from my phone instantly to pay.
Going to really suck for taxi drivers though.
Love the jobs comments in this thread. As though flipping burgers is even enough to live on...
And obviously what the people who make their living off these jobs and manage to make it stretch need is to lose their jobs as a kick in the pants to spend thousands of dollars they don't have to get a college education in order to get a 'skilled' job.
Isn't it so obvious?And obviously what the people who make their living off these jobs and manage to make it stretch need is to lose their jobs as a kick in the pants to spend thousands of dollars they don't have to get a college education in order to get a 'skilled' job.
Goes to show that societies in which it costs thousands of dollars to get a college education will be hit the hardest by automation of low-skilled jobs, whereas those that provide cheaper education will be affected less.
So the USA can either fight against automation, and potentially lose their edge as other countries take advantage of them, or accept a healthy dose of socialism.
Goes to show that societies in which it costs thousands of dollars to get a college education will be hit the hardest by automation of low-skilled jobs, whereas those that provide cheaper education will be affected less.
So the USA can either fight against automation, and potentially lose their edge as other countries take advantage of them, or accept a healthy dose of socialism.
Robots gotta be better than what's there now.
This is basically a less snarky version of what my real point was. It's really fucking easy to say that people shouldn't have to work jobs like that, but if you really believe that you'd damn well better be willing to support transforming your society into one that doesn't need/force them to. Otherwise you're just going to wind up with a lot of really poor people.
Looks like I'm out of a job.
Wow, what kind of fantasy world do you live in?
Here's a good reason - hunger.