Dear Burger Flippers: Your end is near lol
The machines are rising!
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Good. All low wage jobs need to be replaced with robots.
It means people with robotics backgrounds like me will get paid more.
"muh $15 minimum wage"
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good thing i went to burger flipper robot cleaner school. it's a dirty job but somebodies gotta do it
As more unskilled labor people eventually get either a college degree or recieve vocational training in a profession, then your degree and your profession becomes worth less. You are now more replaceable and you have more competition. Its already happening in many fields, like programming. Automation doesn't just affect the unskilled laborers. Digital technology has already allowed companies to make do with much fewer accountants than in the past 2 decades.
Wow. This is so ridiculously overcomplicated - an articulated robotic arm with so many points of failure using AI with visual recognition for completed cooking cues...
If you want to automate burger flipping, simply engineer a rotating timed griddle (possibly with vibration to ensure burger patty does not stick to surface) or a small-scale hot-plate/through-oven conveyor belt moving through bun/condiment application points with self-cleaning via steam spray on the underside track course.
The thing is that there isn't much desire for this kind of automation in the first place, because these types of menial jobs serve a societal purpose. If we remove these jobs, we must offer something else in return to occupy the workers. Trying to force unskilled workers into skilled fields will be an overall detriment... Too many cooks in the kitchen so to speak.
These kind of things always result in an argument about minimum wage when in reality robotics is replacing all kinds of jobs regardless of the wage because companies care about making money and robots are both more effective and efficient at doing that.
If a robot can do a human's job better than that robot will replace that job regardless of what the job actually is.
I wish they replaced that newsperson with a robot instead
Is that it...?
Y'know, Japan already has entire hotels run almost exclusively by robots. There's like 5 or 6 people, and then everything else, including the front desk, is done by robots. Our country needs to step up it's game.
yfw you realise WALL-E wasn't a cartoon but a documentary from the future.
this is only natural.
Countries that use cheap labor never advance because the labor is cost efficient. people dont understand when the cost of doing the job is greater than the money received for the job costs must be reevaluated.
$15 an hour. i have already been to fast food restaurants with a big touch screen that i order my food. When the gas station Sheetz started we just hit the touch screen to order food. Cut out the conversation with a person who didnt care about his job and wouldnt even bother typing no-ketchup.
The inside of the future fast food places is this...
Your staff of the future 1 mechanic/maintainer .. (Possibly just on call for a district) 1 manager 1 cook (Quality control) 1 drive thru attendant 1 person to hand food out
and the jobs above are the minimum 5 thing. i could see the manager handing food out. you are looking at 3 people in the building. Maybe even only 1 if its a slow day.
"Can i speak to your manager?" .. --"Speaking sir" "who was i just talking to then?" --"He was the cashier" "Who am i talking to now?" --"I am the cook now the manager went on break"
my favorite story is this one: https://therandomization.wordpress.com/2017/02/18/til-the-inventor-of-automatic-telephone-switching-was-an-undertaker-named-almon-strowger-who-created-it-because-the-wife-of-his-competitor-was-the-town-operator-who-directed-any-calls-for-an-undertake/
basically if it hurts the bottom line people will figure out how to fix that. This lady cost thousands of people their job because she wasnt doing hers right.