For fast-food workers (and their unions) of the world, [3] the following image is truly terrifying... As People's Daily China reports [4], 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" [6]
Sure. You can make $15 an hour at McDonald's, at least in Seattle. You just have to perform better than this machine.
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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.
