Posted on 02/28/2020 10:44:06 AM PST by Red Badger
In a test kitchen in a corner building in downtown Pasadena, Flippy the robot grabbed a fryer basket full of chicken fingers, plunged it into hot oil — its sensors told it exactly how hot — then lifted, drained and dumped maximally tender tenders into a waiting hopper.
A few feet away, another Flippy eyed a beef patty sizzling on a griddle. With its camera eyes feeding pixels to a machine vision brain, it waited until the beef hit the right shade of brown, then smoothly slipped its spatula hand under the burger and plopped it onto a tray.
The product of decades of research in robotics and machine learning, Flippy represents a synthesis of motors, sensors, chips and processing power that wasn’t possible until recently.
Now, Flippy’s success — and the success of the company that built it, Miso Robotics — depends on simple math and a controversial hypothesis of how robots can transform the service economy. Costing less to employ than a minimum-wage worker, Flippy is built to slip in right alongside humans on the fast-food line.
Flippy the robot running a fry station at Miso Robotics’ test kitchen in January in Pasadena. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)
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But where will the illegals work?!
This robot needs a living wage! Stick it to the man! Down with big fast food! Che now - Che forever!!!!
I guess Jeff didn’t get a gig.
Well, let’s see. I can choose an unreliable, scraggly-haired, tattooed employee for $15/hour or I can choose an “employee” who will work 24 hours a day for $3.00/hour. Which do I choose?
They will learn to code or stay in their home countries...................
But...can it spit in a cops food??
We went to a local Denny’s for breakfast early, 4 AM, on Sunday.
The cook looked like he just crawled out of a dumpster.
Dirty, wrinkly Denny’s shirt, had what looked like open sores on his arms................
Just WD-40................
$3 an hour and never permitted to go home from work?
sounds like my last job
I’m sure some union out there wants to sign him up.
When asked for a comment, the robot was silent, and continued to work...............
Maybe a little 10W-30.
Decades of economic history and economic theory both agree that labor saving devices that increase the productivity of labor have a long term beneficial effect on the prosperity of the economy as a whole and on the standard of living of the average worker.
In 1972?....................
How racist! A White robot in blackface!
The next Governor of Virginia?
But where will the illegals work?!
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No problem. Flippy doesn’t mop floors or scrub toilets.
Another plus...Flippy won’t spit in your food.
Will it spit oil in my food?
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