Posted on 06/22/2018 6:51:25 AM PDT by mac_truck
San Francisco is ground zero for tech companies, from social media to bioengineering. It’s also a city obsessed with food, and often the first destination for international chains like Michelin-starred Tsuta Ramen to break into the U.S. market. It’s a city teeming with early adopters and forward thinkers, like the team behind Creator, both a restaurant and a culinary robotics company that will offer the world’s first robot-made burgers when it opens June 27.
The machine isn’t a parody of a human with robotic arms and fingers, flipping burgers and assembling buns on a conveyor belt. It’s an all-inclusive burger-making device that accomplishes every part of the burger’s preparation, from slicing and toasting the brioche buns to grinding meat and searing the burger to order in five minutes.
It’s also an incredibly advanced engineering achievement. The team behind it includes an impressive lineup of engineers and roboticists from the pantheons of technology and user interaction like Apple, NASA, and Tesla. But, despite the firepower behind the machine, its reason for being is entirely focused on improving food. Food tech companies in the recent past have focused too much energy on creating a cool and complicated device, allowing its actual usefulness to take a back burner. (Juicero, the $700 juicer that failed spectacularly after users discovered they could simply squeeze the juice packs with their own hands to yield the same results, comes to mind.) However, this eight-year project began with founder Alex Vardakostas’s desire to improve how food is made.
“We’ve always been a food-first company,” says Alex Vardakostas of his company, Creator, formerly known as Momentum Machines. “I wanted to create a better culinary instrument.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sf.eater.com ...
They better be paying them a ‘Living Wage’!............................
Who puts a factory tomato on their burger nowadays. It is like adding water to the burger.
Sorta like.....the zipcode will vever be mandatory/we’ll never be pumping our own gas, Etc.!
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Most folks don’t see those articles on transhumanism/AI, etc....
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Tik, Tik, Tik.....???
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Robots on the streets of San Francisco have had mixed reviews...people tend to kick them as they pass by.
What are low skilled people going to do for work?
Eventually if too few people are working, what's the benefit to working hard if quality of life is better for the Free Shit Army?
I went there a week later, and he was gone, replaced by an electronic kiosk from which customers order their meals. As the Sirius Satellite Radio pundit Andrew Wilkow has said over and over again, "Roboburger is coming" as government intervention prices live employees out of the market.
Eh, not really so sophisticated. For example, not more advanced than a bank ATM that can identify customers, read checks, safely dole out cash, etc. Much more responsibility in those machines, performing higher-level functions (e.g., bank teller vs. short order cook), and developed and deployed for decades now.
Likewise, lots of factory automation has been way ahead of this technologically for decades.
Make them police inspectors and that’ll stop.
At least with the Stone, Keller, and Callahan builds.
They had these in the 60s...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmXLqImT1wE
But the tech wasn’t quite there yet, as the upkeep on the mechanics was high...
For those familiar with automated assembly machines, this is what would be expected. The biggest difference is the requirement for sanitization and to withstand the cooking process. An industrial robot could be easily taught to make burgers but it would be slow and inefficient. Right tool for the job...
Now that is some good old fashion “better mousetrap” making there.
“What are low skilled people going to do for work?”
Mug the idiots that demanded 15 an hour.
That’s very cool, haven’t seen it before! You just know Ray Kroc saw that and when they got to the part about “Double burger with cheese and a tangy flavor sauce” the little light bulb over his head snapped on!
Howcome Doug gets his name on the wall. Employee of the month?
Maybe the robot's name is Doug
Oh, maybe so. I was thinking his name was HAL.
Soon you will order from an APP on your phone, then drive up, punch in your order number, and get your food in a box. No more need for limited English cashiers ...
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