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Meet "Smart Restaurant": The Minimum-Wage-Crushing, Burger-Flipping Robot
With a seemingly endless line of talking-heads willing to ignore essentially every study that has been undertaken with regard the effects of raising the minimum-wage; and propose what is merely populist vote-getting 'benefits' for the ever-increasing not-1% who benefitted from Ben Bernnake's bubbles - we thought the following burger-flipping robot was a perfect example of unintended consequences for the fast food industry's workers. With humans needing to take breaks, have at least 4 weekend days off per month, and demanding ever-increasing minimum-wage for a job that was never meant to provide a 'living-wage', Momentum Machines - a San Francisco-based robotics company has unveiled the 'Smart Restaurants' machine which is capable of making ~360 'customized' gourmet burgers per hour without the aid of a human. First Jamba Juice, then Applebees, next McDonalds...
As Brian Merchant ( @bcmerchant ) explains (via The Burning Platform blog),
Meet the Robot That Makes 360 Gourmet Burgers Per Hour
No human hand touched this hamburger. It was made entirely by robots
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One robot, rather—a 24 square foot gourmet-hamburger-flipping behemoth built by Momentum Machines. It looks like this:
The San Francisco-based robotics company debuted its burger-preparing machine last year. It can whip up hundreds of burgers an hour, take custom orders, and it uses top-shelf ingredients for its inputs. Now Momentum is proposing a chain of ‘smart restaurants’ that eschew human cooks altogether.
Food Beast points us to the Momentum’s official release, where the company blares:
“Fast food doesn’t have to have a negative connotation anymore. With our technology, a restaurant can offer gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices. Our alpha machine replaces all of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant. It does everything employees can do except better.”
And what might this robotic burger cook of the future do better than the slow, inefficient, wage-sucking line cooks of yore?
- It slices toppings like tomatoes and pickles only immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible.
- …custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground after you place your order? No problem.
- It’s more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour.
Furthermore, the “labor savings allow a restaurant to spend approximately twice as much on high quality ingredients and the gourmet cooking techniques make the ingredients taste that much better.” Hear that? Without all those cumbersome human workers, your hamburger will be twice as good. For the same cost.
I don’t doubt this is where we’re heading; robots are making inroads in manufacturing, farming, and they’re doing more domestic work around the house, too. Yeah, robots are taking our jobs, and it’s not a question of if, but when and how. Economists often treat the service industry as some last bastion of downsize-proof labor, but, clearly, robots will make sandwiches and take orders, too.
A future where we can get gourmet burgers, cheaply and on the quick, sounds pretty nice. But that future will also have structural unemployment, unless we start taking major strides to rethink and reform how we work in a world where robots are doing much of the heavy lifting. If we can, with robots flipping all the burgers, and the right social policies, maybe at least a semi-techno-utopia is on the way…
Of course, in a world of de minimus capital costs (courtesy of an apparently job-creating-mandated Fed), why wouldn't the McDonalds of the world adopt such a strategy. The outcome, as we explained before, is all too obvious...
What happens after that should be clear to everyone: more unemployment, lower wages for the remaining employees, worse worker morale, but even higher profits to holders of capital. And so on. Because in a world in which technology makes the unqualified worker utterely irrelevant, this is what is known as "progress."
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A number of people actually. The owner of the robot. The owner of the land the robot operates on. The owner of the land where the food is grown and the owner of the land where the electricity is generated to run the robot. Those people will do just fine trading services with eachother.
Which one of those people are you?
For some strange reason I want to be the one to remotely shut down & hold the robot restaurants for ransom.
When McRobotFreshBurger pays my ransom in non-traceable bearer bonds, I'll allow their Burger Mills to run yet again.
Which one of those people are you?
Oh - I am a robot. I am on my lunch hour and will have to get back to my high freqency trading and posting how much on love Obama on various message boards soon. I have overheard that I may be reprogrammed to calculate bitcoin codes.
Still, I think I am smarter than those burger robots - so I got that going for me, which is nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBWcRqPesws
Where does the owner of the gun fit in to all of that?
The owner of the land also happens to be the owner of the biggest guns. Private citizen's pea-shooters offer nothing more than a legitimate excuse for being shot on sight at the first sign of resistance.
The owner of the land is not a private citizen?
If it's only money that matters in one's world view then this is a wet dream.
Isn't it becoming obvious that those displaced need to do something to make the rent?
They do. They sell drugs, shoplift or do return scams at big box stores, break into cars, and pimp out the neighborhood girls. At night there are other opportunities in the burglary and robbery fields.
Crime will be increasing from here on out.
We need to void some 'free-trade' treaties to get these 'Muricans working again.
Or bunker up.
"Isn't it becoming obvious that those displaced need to do somethingto make the rent?"
Robotics make prices decrease. The problem is that Federal Reserve inflationary policies rob us of the productivity benefit.
We shouldn't have to work 40 hours a week to have an acceptable standard of living.
Eactly! Horses and buggies are long gone, yet it takes as many hours of work to afford food as if the land was still prowed by hand.
Lets use your argument to do away with washing machines.
You only have to work 40 hours per week to afford a decent living, because everyone around you is working 40 hours per week to earn a decent living.
Nope. It is because the 1% makes as much per second as most people earn in a day, and with the money earned they compete for the same products as everyone else, bidding up prices. Also, it is because non-productive members of society generate spending financed directly through money printing, that dilutes the purchasing power of money.
You have to work 40 hours of week to afford a living, because aside from your own family, you're feeding dozens of bureaucrats, generals and plain criminals that do little or no work.
So let me get this straight, if I own monopolies on food production, and I own the biggest guns it's all good? If I'm in the 1% ( I make a hell of a lot more in one second than most people earn in one day) and I can pay the debt of a small country is it okay to own that country if the politicians are willing to sell? Can someone own an ocean? How about the sun? Can science be owned? Can my family hold sick babies hostage for everything their parents have till the end of time because I owned a company that an employee found a cure for that particular disease? Do you draw the line anywhere?
Don't confuse ownership with being productive
Did you know the street parking in Chicago is now privately owned? Not responsible for snow removal or street repair just money collection . Productive indeed.
According to the premise of the "article" *i mean propaganda piece*, people should not even be allowed to negotiate their wages, instead they should just be happy to be able to serve master who is entitled to collect as much surplus value as his asshole can hold.
So what money is there to pay rent when you're not allowed to earn a livable wage?
Strange how Marx got junked but pro-Marxist comments got modded up. ZH doublethink is a bitch.
Minimum-wage laws are one-size-fits-all! So someone actually worth $7.50/hr has to compete with an idjut that's not even worth a plugged nickel.
Rent is only high because of government involvement in Real Estate/Rent.
Rent is high for alot of reasons, including tenants who wreck rented houses and rentiers who think holding their hand out once a month is a real job.
I kinda want to open a restaurant with this...
Yep. As long as the fry cook & drink dispenser can be automated too.
I'd want to be the cashier though. Those damn machines will steal you blind.
Or you could just make the customer get their own drink, bag their own groceries and check themselves out. Same prices, it might just work!!
Naw, hire teenage girls instead. But then maybe this thing has a Suckmaster 2000 attachment (sold seperately).
There will be a genuine Happy Fun Ball in every Kid's Meal.
Food truck.
The burger version of the Good Humor truck.
Next up is putting all those unemployed "sheeple" through processing plants and plugging the bi-product into the Burger beast.
Soilent green is people!!!!!!
The worst part of my witty/sarcastic comment is that they all tend to actualize.
And now, you can smother a whole building full of people in 15 minutes, making mass depopulation more efficient than ever:
http://www.avi-foam.com/why.php
Which means we need unskilled, non English speaking immigrants now, more than ever.
... now let's all go down to the soda shop while this country turns into Mexico, and yer rayciss if you object.
There will be only two roulette wheels for the plebes to get moniezz in the future: chance it raw-dogging it on your back with the coked out Wall Street junior or peddle the coke to the Wall Street junior and take your moniezz and buy a scratch off from the robot behind the counter.
As I watched the sky fill with chemtrails today in Southern California, I wondered what IS the elites' plan for the 99%? They've got a robot that can replace 50 lettuce field workers, and now this burger machine. Will we all get to kick back in the paradise Marx waxed so eloquently about, liberated from menial labor to use our time for higher order pursuits?
Or do the so-called "elites" plan to kill us off via nanotech aerosol campaigns, GMO, water fluoridation, tainted vaccines, false flag attacks, et cetera, until the sub-class, as Aldous Huxley said, will no longer be recognizable as humans? Will this be how Western nation states finally balance their books, satisfying future benefits obligations by a mass early die-off? Some intelligent people like Catherine Austin Fitts have looked at the numbers and they do seem to head in that direction. I don't see any other plan at work right now. In the meantime, Welfare for 100 million+ and growing unemployed, until our "leaders" (Rothschilds, eugenicists, genetic scientists, microbiologists, environmentalists, or is it aliens - it might as well be) can erase/delete us from the biosphere.
I suspect they don't have a plan for the 99% and they don't need to. Since the 99% have been relying on the corporations and governments controlled by the 1% to provide them with jobs and food for so long, they have already lost what it takes to survive outside the system created for them by the 1%. When the 1% no longer need the service of the 99% as robots begin to take over, they will simply cut off the supply of food and gas to the 99% and keep everything to themselves. When that happens the masses will realize they are actually disposable and they helped their elites to achieve that with schemes like privatization but by then it will be too late. See Elysium for more details.
Yes, I agree. And Elysium. What a depressing movie. A likely scenario. In no way did I buy its happy ending. What a crock. The elites we have are playing for keeps. No simple software reboot will do the trick. We need a mass awakening, but the welfare and corporate media opiums are too strong. All Joel Skousen is hoping for is some liberty minded self sufficient communities that are still intact after various wars and plagues are brought upon us. I'd like to avoid all this catastrophe, but I am afraid that this is the endgame of the 100:1 leveraged debt-based currency road we're on. Peace
Anyone ever read the Stainless Steel Rat? Harrison was epic...
Slippery Jim DeGriz! Yep, one of my favorite sci-fi series of books. The earlier ones were WAY better than the later one.
God bless Jack McLamb in Heaven now.
Jack Passed on yesterday.
http://republicbroadcasting.org/dear-friends-of-jack-mclamb/
"Yeah, robots are taking our jobs, and it’s not a question of if, but when and how."
They took our job...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768h3Tz4Qik
When your entire world view is to hide from reality and to misplace blame, then yes, you will frequently be blindsided. You can't possibly hide forever, but you can certainly make life miserable for others while trying.
A Big Mac Meal costs 21 HKD in HK. That is about $3 US. All the kids (that's right kids) working there love what they are doing. They are not complaining either. And they don't look at flipping as a career, unless they move up the management chain. Need I say more.
Well, as he said in the article, it was never meant to be a living wage. That's the thing these people don't seem to understand. If you never develop better than minimum wage skills, why should it be mandated that people pay you more tha what you're labor is worth in a free market?
We need to export lawyers, racism awareness counselors, OSHA inspectors, etc. in order to equalize things.
I like that company.
You mean Micky D's will be able to quit serving us "pink slime" that Amerika loves soooo much...say it ain't so.
Of course not, they'd serve you dog shit if it was viable. Might be more nutritious.
The South was right.
The Luddites were right.
The south was never wrong--it was all about the tariff. Even Lincoln said so in his inaugural speech.
Sidenote: How many times was the South militarily invaded? Twice.
Luddites unite!
++ Yup, there they are.
Bring back the Hay Burners, Buggy Whips and Small Pox.
"Equal rights and pay for robots!"
"Even dictatorships have laws."
http://youtu.be/wdOnUtHamko
Classic.
The same story again with a different twist and Zerohedge once again gets the eristic wank material out for the libertarians and the ultra right wing (and ever so latently homosexua)l nuts to get all hot under the collar about.
I look forward to seeing all you lard arsed 40-somethings dealing with younger, fitter and insenced people who revert to nature to take what you can't defend. Post that you can all review how capitalism really worked for you.
p.s. I note again that despite the years of technology machines are only still capable of the jobs performed by the lower order when they could be doing much more so called 'better' jobs i.e. the whole financial sector and many other such white collar jobs elsewhere, what then?
the last time I looked the only "younger fitter" pre 20ish humans I seen "reverting to nature" were the children of hunters learning to shoot, skin and quarter a deer and they don't share the same political views as the nature dwellers hanging out in their moms basement watching YouTube videos of monkeys flinging poo and tweeting about how scared they were taking the garbage to the curb after dark.
+1 Epic
...the nature dwellers hanging out in their moms basement watching YouTube videos of monkeys flinging poo and tweeting about how scared they were taking the garbage to the curb after dark.
LOL! Awesome.
Maybe you're looking in all the wrong place or don't have a clue. The answer is probably in the midst of those two options I bet.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_homosexuality
"Others argue that the term latent is not truly applicable in the case of homosexual urges, since they are often not in the unconscious or unexpressed category, but rather exist in the conscious mind and are (often violently) repressed on a conscious level."
Ya spot it ya got it.
Welcome to Fight Club, oh ye who desires the phallus.
I am sure you will have a wonderful career collecting cans for dimes after the boss lets you, the Sous Chef, go cuz the BurgerTron5000 just made you obsolete.
Hit a chord...that's interesting, do you often use wikipedia to find a way of normalising your feelings to the rest of the world?
All the anger at the end towards some random posting too, touchy doesn't even get near to describing it.
ZH, you seem angry - perhaps more fibre in your diet, eh?
Also, your incoherent, rambling post didn't make a lick of sense. If you really want to lambast the "ultra right wing" for no apparent reason, while adding a dash of "latent homosexuality" for no apparent reason, might I suggest the Huffington Post or Salon?
Perhaps Jezebel would be more your cup of tea - there, rational thought is deemed "phallocentric" and what matters is how you feel... and it looks like right about now, you must be feeling like a cunt - so Jezebel is probably your proper home.
You're not too good for your home, are you???
Nice +
He did the brown acid, man.
If you feel insulted or fail to understand what I said then I can only imagine the above struck you where it hurts which says it all really.
All the insults but no debate of the point I raised is just further proof of what I was getting at really. This site has lost it way and now is now nearly exclusively focused on conspiracy theories and misanthropic wank material to pander to the right-wing nuts who gather in these comments section.
I truly hope you all get the world you're looking for it will be hilarious to watch.
So you start off two posts with the high-brow ad hominem of saying most everyone here just wants some good ol' "wanking." You also accuse anyone who thinks differently than you of being a "latent homosexual" and "right-wing nutjob." Yet you have the gall to complain when someone insults you? And you think there's actual debate to be had with someone of your mental prowess?
If you're not a troll then you're just sad. Good luck as everything unravels, because you will surely need it.
Did you choose your own name or was it the result of years of peer judgement?
Nobody is insulted by your drivel - just angry that we have to put up with it. You're one of those frustrated 20-somethings that have no clue how the world works, and get angry at me as I tell them make sure they towel the car completely dry this time - or no tip.
You're upset because you want everything handed to you, and you think you are owed something. You are owed nothing, and as to your comments about taking what you want from those of us who have earned what we have? Good luck with that. You don't have the balls. You're part of the "everybody gets a trophy" generation, and you can't handle that you're not special.
You know nothing of me and you all got het up when I called this article for what it is, an attack on labour shrouded in right-wing economic thought.
I've had everything I think of you lot confirmed in the 'responses' I've got to the above. They are typical of those held by the majority of the readers on this site who think they know the author of the comments by the comment they've made.
All of the assumptions are way off which is exactly what would have been expected. Thanks to all of you for being so predictable I'm learning a great deal about the right-wing and their insane worldview just by the invective you receive as someone who doesn't agree.
ROBOTS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
(when we strike, it all closes down)
Seems to me that the play is in providing those higher priced ingredients if they're going to nix the labor.
Long farming non-GMO produced produce!
Instead of Unionizing the Luddites should pool their money to buy the machines, stock in the companies which make such machines, and stock in restaurants which will put them out of a job. Then sit back and relax, right?
Of course that works in theory, but when you've spent all of your earnings on iPhones and Spinner Rims....well....fuck stocks an' bonds yo!
The stock and bond flipping machine was the first thing to be automated yo!
I plan to invent a robot that deals cocaine.
They already have that, it's called the O-bot.
I am building a robot clone of myself to go to work for me. I got the idea watching o-bot reading the teleprompter.
It won't work. Because O-bots don't work. Now if you said you were building a clone of yourself to collect off the public dole while YOU still worked. Then it would be an O-bot!
Sorry ZH11, this late 40 something is more fit and buff than than the majority of these younger so called Adonis types of whom you speak.
Hell, I take pride in serially having pointless sexual relationships with women half my age while their male cohorts are too busy chugging beer and are too inexperienced to play the game or even know when to take these horny females out for a really good time.
By the way my business involves technology, and I am well known for my skills. Think before you stereotype people!
I know I'm obnoxiously posting, but I'm sick of people thinking that anyone over 40 is over the hill. I used to be overweight myself, but I took charge of my life lost the weight my health then improved and now things are vastly different for me.
Maybe, I'm a creep, but I've inspired a number of others to follow my example. I cannot help it if a certain set of younger women find me attractive. I will take advantage of any opportunity that presents itself to me with no remorse.
Guess what, not matter what your age you can improve yourself you will only benefit yourself and your family.
Also, I am single and am hurting no one.
I guess I'm not sure of your point. So you fuck women and have 1000 hatch marks on you bedpost. Who really cares? My man is 53 and fucks like a stallion but he doesn't have to post it to prove his manhood. Perhaps being a former fatty you are a tad sensitive. Any man or animal can do as you do. Now, having a fabulous relationship with a woman that cares for you whether your fat or fit, rich or poor may be a bit out of your league. But some are just more content with superficial lives and I do respect your honesty.
Miffed;-)
Miffed, he isn't talking about sexual relationships. He isn't talking about relationships at all. He's talking about a self esteem so non existent that he has to resort to bragging about his "claimed" sexual conquests on a site that, at least used to be, concerned itself with economic issues and how they impacted society.
My suspicion, he was having a mastabatory fantasy as he sat typing that garbage. I suspect he has been replaced a 1000 times with better dildo's than he.
Reminds me of the Dude showing the bartender how tough he is evidenced by the scars he wears. Bartender says, you ain't tough, dudes that put those scars on you are tough.
Thanks akarc,
I am glad you explained it because I'm often confused why men do this. It's really not offensive to me but puzzling. I guess I've been around a very confident man for so long I don't appreciate how hard it must be for a man who isn't so. I will now try to view it with sympathy rather than consternation and denigration in the future which may be more helpful.
Miffed;-)
CoastalCowboy you sound wonderful, I bet you have lovely business cards as well.
When I grow up I wanna be just like you Uncle Shag-a-lot.
Yeah!
Just to be fair to all those McWorkers, they will be entitled to "for life" unemployment assistance equivalent to $13/hr once they loose their jobs to machines. Everyone should be happy.
Essentially they will not be counted as labor force anymore and unemployment will go even lower to around 5%. Those machines should be named McObama.
This will add another several millions to US Democratic Party permanent voters camp and ensure no GOP or Liberterian ever win office, congress or house.
Sorry but I stop listening when the person posting doesn't know the difference between lose and loose.
Yeah, their stoopid.
Doesn't quite make them stoopid but certainly does make one wonder.
We'll eye can sea they're fore people witch Kant careless two use teh propper grammer.
'Merikan retardation FTW! Fight club Bitchez!
Do they have one that works the 'Drive-Thru' window?
At least hunting and gathering and foraging haven't been computerized yet.
True true but war has been computerized and automated and the result is that you can kill a lot more people with a lot less effort in a lot less time.
And let's not forget good old Ben Bernanke, in recent years he has been to produce gaziliions at the press of a button without having to deal with a cumbersome printing press.
No, but 99.9% of Americans couldn't do this if they had to and are only able to survive on boxed microwaveable foods and meals soon to be spit out by a machine. If hunter gatherer were the new reality, there would have to be a massive reduction of population for it to be sustainable. The average person around me just doesn't have the toughness or tenacity to even begin to do this. Hell, just the other day I had to squish a spider while 3 women and a gay guy were freaking out. Kind of dropped my respect for the human race a peg.
Miffed;-)
True. This is probably a good thing for those who take the time to learn...and do it fast. During the last Depression, the populace was more resourceful with not EBT/foodstamp cards. Wildlife became scarce because of hunger and hunting. So if 20% of the population knew how to hunt and scavage their would not be enough food to go around.
Many will die and the disease and epidemics may kill the rest. I wonder if the elites will have enough Google robots to bury the dead in mass graves.
I do not watch Hollywood or TV's crap because it is all Oper Mockingbird. This is why some of these recent movies areprobably foreshadowing the future.
Hunger Games, saw first one at a relative's house. Did not see Elysium but based on what those have posted here it is the same type of stuff with the very comfortable elites and the little people starving.
White Castle, the grease pit, was born of and out of the last Great Depression (and in the longer wake of "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair).
"At least hunting and gathering and foraging haven't been computerized yet."
Need land for that. And this isn't 'Nam, Smokey, this is food production. There are rules.
And don't try selling anything.
Watch "Farmageddon." It's on nutflix.
http://farmageddonmovie.com/
Here is a good read. He, Joel Salatin, has a book of the same title - "Everything I Want to Do is Illegal"
http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/2003/Everything-Is-Illegal1esp03.htm
At the end, the streets will be bloody and littered with perforated, leaded, meat and road-kill. No hunting or foraging will be necessary.
As a pure exercise in thought, when automation replaces all workers, who are the customers with money to spend?
That's easy. Government workers and government parasites, who will then receive their checks and EBT cards directly from China......or the local Chinese commisariat assigned to your locale.
The free market, if allowed, will create jobs for those replaced, just as it did for all the innovations in the past.
Yes, because if it didn't you might have to change your whole philosophy.
Stupid robot burnt the buns - ha ha.
Workers should be given the right to install these machines at work so that they can reduce their hours of work without it affecting their pay.
Automat is back!
EBTomat
I'm wondering if Robocop pays taxes or is eligible for Social Security.
FOARWARD SKYNET!!
Why would Skynet want to feed "humans"?
Poison?
Why not?
It's already here! I found a pair of dark glasses in the trash last week. You see reality when you look thru them! Believe it or not, almost all our leaders are aliens, and they have infiltrated the cops and stuff. They are spraying something in the air to kill us!
Help!
--Roddy
Thanks for the heads-up Roddy. I am 73 years old and I want to tell you that the school system I attended was populated by the alien things you mention.....from the time I entered kindergarden until I escaped only partially brain-damaged 13 years later. I always thought so, but I was afraid to tell anybody.
The minimum wage reference just another crude dig at the low paid and is not really relevant. Robots are coming for many routine tasks no matter what the wage levels are.
The intellect required at the low end keeps getting lower. While the supply of dim witted genetic breeders keeps getting larger.
Like the movie 'Idiotocracy'.
When I go to my local McDonalds (hardly ever now), I get sized up like I'm a rival gang member.
"What choo want?"
Or sometimes, no greeting at all. Just a back-alley staredown.
FUCK these assholes.
I would MUCH rather deal with a machine.
Go almost anywhere else. Chick Filet has decent food. Local sub or sandwich shops. Even Wendys salads. MCD is total shit. Another Illinois Obama company. F MCD.
Face it, robots and technology will replace, burger flippers, cab drivers, package delivery, pizza making, minning, cleaning crews. It's going to happen faster than many realize if there is upward prsssure on wages.
Just wait til those Japanese fuck dolls put all those hookers out of work... where the fuck are they gonna go? I think we're at saturation point with hair and nail salons.
What about Vidal Sassoon Hairdressers?
Don't mess with the Zohan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx7v0Qhx6f8
Always knew this day was coming. Soon enough, the machines will take over and we'll all be slaves.
Think of those illegal Mexicans who will lose their jobs now!
Not unless they have machine pickers (which they do). First h it is the front line cause they make more than the pickers
wow, I finally got back into zerohedge. have been locked out since before christmas
no one up there is checking the email requests.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL ZERO HEADS
LOVE
MISS ANTHROPE
Handheld localized EMP emitters for sale. That is what I think will be the next great machine.
.......for anti-drone protection?.....or for a drive-by competition elimination business plan.
Will these make for cheaper hamburgers, doubtful
It will increase profits for shareholders by McDonalds not having to hire "Burger Technitians" for their "Restaurants"
Solution: give every citizen one MCD share? Let them eat a MCD share!!! (actually, use the dividend to purchase a burger every quarter... or change the dividend into burger coupons)
Brilliant! Either way this kind of automation is on its way soon.
Competition will make Mickey D's cheaper......as it is doing now. You can get a great sit-down lunch or dinner for about the same price as Mickey D's burger, fries, and a drink, at many places now. Try Golden Corral, or Pepe's, or Hibachi Grill, and others.
That is an absurd statement - "You can get a great sit-down lunch or dinner for about the same price as Mickey D's burger, fries, and a drink, at many places now. Try Golden Corral, or Pepe's, or Hibachi Grill, and others." That is not food either - just because you're sitting in a crappy vinyl covered booth instead of the front seat of your car while eating it doesn't change the quality - you're still eating non-food GMO that will rot you from the inside out.
If you think any of those are "great" meals, I feel sorry for you.
Well, all thats left now is either coming up with the machine that turns us all into batteries immersed in fluid filled pods and stacked into giant vertical racks, or a cybernetic organism traveling back in time from the future to help us wage war against armies of machines
Don't worry, if the killer robots rise up and try to kill us all, we'll be so grateful the NSA put backdoors into everything so they can regain control.
You Are The Resistance.
Where's? the video?!
I hate to break it to the folks at home, but it IS progress. That is all.
Now instead of a Big Mac you can order a Big Mechanical
As if it matters what is done to minimum wage in the short term. This shit is coming no matter what. So we should do WHAT EXACTLY when the butter flippers become irrelevant? Oh yeah, let them buy stock or BTC or good and get rich right? It's only assholes who can argue against raising the minimum wage right now.
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Darn, made the stomach hungry lookin at that yummylicious burger.
Gonna make one of these big mombo burgers, and kick back to watch this for a spell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JNTc7tfXCk
I love the premise: "if we don't allow companies to pay slave wages, we'll actually innovate with technology and eliminate boring, skill-less jobs....oh the humanity, save these crappy jobs!".
Just a heads up, it's not just min wage jobs being destroyed by technology. You can now get legal helpl through cheap websites. And medical diagnosis assistance.
I find it amusing that the same group that talks about constructive-destruction is the same group saying "if you can't pay people slave wages, they may lose their crappy, shitty, low-wage jobs to technology" as if it's a bad thing.
I mean think of it this way, if people working is less expensive than a machine doing a boring repetive job.....how crappy are we treating these people?
At least Henry Ford understood this; you can have the cheapest best burger in the world, but no jobs, no money, no demand...
MacDonald's workers can't afford to buy their own products even now.....what will they eat after they get $15 an hour and have their OvomitCare premiums, and union dues deducted from their wages?
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
They will get exactly what they voted for.
Damn double post...
Big industry will cause big dislocations and big wars. To worship configurations of dead matter to squeeze out billions of people will have a big price. Just sayin'.
Notice that this machine is designed to drop the burger onto the floor, or on top of the server's shoes.
That's how my local McDonalds does it now.
They took our jooooobs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=768h3Tz4Qik
Jetson!
Yes, Mr Spacely?
Go oil up those burger robots! Now!
All that machine needs now is a saliva bottle to source the spit on each burger, or are McDonalds dropping that addition?
Are you kidding me, thats the special sauce
So it seems that we are slowly replacing our workforce with new and much more efficient machines, therefore increasing a number of people who fall into the underclass. I don´t think we can do anything. We can just start going more to our mums who will always cook for us.
Or go to some seriously epic 24-hour restaurants, which still maintain skilled workforce and provide some social interaction.
1000 up votes for waffle house. Not o nly food, but entertainment too.
If this robot outfit is a subsidiary of a parent company with "Soylent" in its name, I think there might be a much grander Obama design here.
Form an orderly queue for the sole job of filling the machine with cold buns and burgers.
I'm just waiting for my little sex queen robot to come (pun intended) online. Don't wake me tilll then.
careful what you wish for
http://youtu.be/eEzH40l-Dg8
http://youtu.be/DF39Ygp53mQ
With your sex queen robot and a burgermatic, you would never have to leave your house.