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Minimum-Wage Hikers Worst Enemy Spotted In China
For fast-food workers (and their unions) of the world, the following image is truly terrifying... As People's Daily China reports, the first restaurant featuring robotic waiters and chefs has opened in Suzhou, Jiangsu...
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Each robot costs RMB40,000 (around $6,500) and speaks 40 sentences... more than many fast-food workers we suspect...
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Update: Mike "Mish" Shedlock also noted the following - The "McCashier"
Sure. You can make $15 an hour at McDonald's, at least in Seattle. You just have to perform better than this machine.
But if you are not more cost effective that that machine, then not only do you not make $15, you do not have a job at all.
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I knew there was an ulterior motive when the Chinese pegged their currency with the US dollar.
We need to win the "Race to the bottom" in the currency debasing.
USA, USA
Oh please...this can never be more than a novelty. When you replace all those jobs with robots, your consumers lose their wages, and your (very expensive)robots end up with a lot of time on their hands.
Why do people seem so determined to push robotics onto labor? It is so obviously negative in its effects, and does such long-term damage to your economic base. A technology that destroys the market it is developed for is a pretty stupid example of disrupting entrepreneurship.
There are ways the 'tech-boys' can play with robotics without our allowing them to use their toys to "disrupt" our fricken lives.
Yes... why not show where they will really be used? Combat.. replace human soldiers of fortune with mechanical ones... they feel no pain, ask no questions and learn no answers, so like psychopaths that run our puppet shows, they neither have, nor need a conscience.... BUT, as we know, that famous saying, 'the ghost in the machine', ala Terminator, has a real history behind it long lost in time and space... but ready to repeat its lessons when we are ready... it always has been a question of choice.
As for its obvious negative effects? The same goes for most govt actions in war or 'peace'... as suicide isn't foreseen by psychopathic puppets without a conscience and without much foresight beyond greed.... they don't see that they are just a virus infecting its host and continues to spread until death is the last hand played.... as was said long ago, 'Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.'
They could make robotic children for the US to drone.
We should have never allowed horse less carriages. Look at the disruption. Buggy whip companies, horse breeders and all the rest. What a mess. It just ruined the whole economy.
You have a point. Wasn't that about 1913 or 1914 when that caught on? Holy shit.
Oh, the old buggy whip companies argument. Well, forget it, they aren't the same. There is a difference between innovations that disrupt an industry, and innovations that disrupt all aspects of the economy.
...innovations that disrupt all aspects of the economy.
Such as electricity.
Well, let me ask you then, do you see ANY potential problems with the robotized workforce?
When electricity came about, the choice then became candles or light bulbs. People who refused to use the new-fangled electricity weren't left in the dark, they just used their old candles and oil lamps. And electricity didn't destroy those other industries, they just lost their dominance. But electricity, and candles and oil lamps have co-existed non-stop since the earliest days of electricity. Candles are actually a pretty big business today.
What do the workers displaced by robotics do? Robotics does not purport to co-exist with labor, it means to replace it.
So, I presume you are also in favor of welfare, because that is where those workers will end up. An unemployed candle is a piece of wax, it will not suffer its loss of market share. An unemployed person is your neighbor, your friend, maybe you, and that suffering is very real.
I'm saying there is a difference here.
Wait until Obama's version of Mao's Great Leap forward is instituted.
"Robot sex the best!"
Sum Ting Wong, Engineel, Sirricon Varrey
Oh my god!
I don't want to be served by a machine that is prompt, clean and doesn't come to work pissed off!
I'm guessing the Robotic McCashier speaks better English than most McD's carbon-unit cashiers? (Better English and better 50 or 100 other languages, too.)
In Chicago MCD:
Chick-a-bar = cheeseburger
witches? = Do you want cheese on that?
fries? = Would you like the meal or just the sandwich?
Yeah? = Welcome to McDonald's, how can I help you?
This is old old old news, but better late than never I suppose.
it is not an old news since in europ mc donalds is starting the implantation of the new system, no more human to take orders, experimental status in some cities in france, you get in , tactil screens to order, you can pay on the machine with credit card or print ticket & go pay with cash with a human. then another human deliver you the order.
1st step, reduce human interaction that are the primary source of time waste.
2nd step, automating craft/build/making of the goods by machines on the fly, to kill waste of materias & another time consuming when manually done.
3rd step, implanting automatic procedure of refilling/cleaning without the need of human intervention
- job done, welcome to year 2035, half the planet have no job, fuck you :)
when the politics will accept the fact that the infinite growth is over & now industrials are replacing humain by machine to keep same amount of rentability, things will start to move.
until that, any media reporting politics with in the 1st sentence the word " growth " i just zap channel.
dick heads dinosaurs.
Over here at decent places with heavy traffic they just hand out tablets for ordering, make your orders, add any comments or instructions, sit back and wait for food. Time to pay? Here's your receipt and it has a QR on it, scan with phone and done.
Newsflash: Amish population explodes as millions of burger flippers demand Obama outlaw machines. Hmmm. A new voting block!
welcome, to the real world.
Morpheus - matrix, 1999 , warner.
If they can do this for teachers then NJ residents may finally have a reasonable property tax bill!
So you expect me to serve myself and take the food off the try?
$15 an hour is 31200 per year divided by the cost of a robot $6500 equals about 5 robots. Five robots showing up everyday working 24/7 no breaks, no holidays, willing to work weekends, no decline in productivity, no smartphones to distract them, etc etc.
40% of jobs automated within 20 years. No wonder the rush to war. No wonder the rush to import as much cheap immigrant labor now to suppress wages for all non automated labor. The employment situation is only going to get worse and the back lash against any immigrant labor is only going to get more fierce. In the future everything will be minimum wage. Which is very deflationary, very destabilizing. Just picture all skilled laborers hanging out around Home depot looking for a days work.
If only we could reduce the world population to something more sustainable since our overlords have already extracted all the wealth they can get from the useless eaters. Those bastards are just liabilities now with the coming wave of automation, and since they can't be sold, some sort of recycling program needs to be initiated.
See previous posts/articles on ZH about Ebola/weaponized aerisolized hemorhagic fever virals and "25% population culling".
The chess pieces are already on the board.