Posted on 04/20/2017 1:29:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SAN FRANCISCO (CNNMoney) -- Sally doesn't clean, chop or toss vegetables. The new salad robot making its debut in San Francisco this month is more like a salad vending machine: Press a few buttons on a touchscreen and it drops neat portions of refrigerated ingredients into a bowl.
But Sally the Salad Robot could be the latest step in automating some of the more repetitive parts of food preparation. Its creators hope food robots can help with one of Silicon Valley's biggest restaurant problems: a shortage of kitchen workers.
Sally is the first product from Chowbotics, a Redwood City startup developing robots for the food-service industry. CEO and Founder Deepak Sekar spent two years creating Sally with help from Apple Fellow Rich Page.
"I've always thought cooking was 20% creative work and 80% formulaic work like chopping," said Sekar....
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no tossing, lol.
But can it make me a samwich, or is a girlfriend still necessary for that?
The greatest challenge of the future will be figuring out what to do with the 6 billion or so largely illiterate, unskilled humans who will find themselves of no use to anyone.
In the meantime, lots of new employment opportunities opening up in the world of robot design and maintenance. Illiterate, unskilled humans need not apply.
What if I don’t want to be a salad?
....and won’t spit in it.............
LOL
I can see it now.
The Russians will hack these machines and put ranch dressing on your salad no matter what your selection, just to throw the CIA off. Liberals, ever mindful of cow farts and their influence on global warming, will therefore object to the word “ranch” and claim they are offended. So whatever the restaurant thinks they’ll be saving eliminating the employee, they will lose having to construct and devote the square footage to a safe space where they will be legally required to serve complimentary cookies and milk. This is dynamic capitalism.
Ah...a 30,000 dollar Salad Shooter. Just the thing to have for your next party.
But the people who fill it still will.
$30K is one year salary at $15/hr.
This is a VERY CHEAP deal when wages hit that level. Even if you add 25% for support and maintenance it will pay for itself in no time.
All but the highest end restaurant workers: this is your future. You purchased it and will get to live it.
Spoiler Alert: see the movie “Idiocracy”
>>What if I don’t want to be a salad?<<
I think it comes with an app that changes your mind.
Oh, it won't be a comedy, what happens to those billions of illiterate, unskilled humans between today and our future robot-staffed life of leisure.
> unskilled humans who will find themselves of no use to anyone.
I’d bet some smart entrepreneurs will find a use for them if the government allows. Ds will do their best to make sure that doesn’t happen though.
Once you see “Idiocracy” and how close we have come to it already, it becomes way less funny, believe me.
I can see the possibilities, but SOMEBODY actually does chop all those veggies, so if this is supposed to take over for kitchens that can’t find workers to chop veggies where are these chopped veggies coming from and what is sprayed on them to keep fresh all the way from China?
Or pick it’s nose.
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