Ha!
Posted on 08/21/2013 10:02:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
By now, you’ve definitely heard about the Burrit0bot — pretty much the most awesome 3D printer in the world. It lets you make burritos … with your iPhone. (If you hadn’t heard about this till now, go ahead and collect your brain pieces from the floor.) Burrit0bot is, very sadly, still a prototype designed by an NYU grad student named Marko Manriquez for his thesis project. Meaning that it hasn’t been made yet.
So — to appease your disappointment — we decided to round up all of the grub that already can be made by robots. To follow, your futuristic food porn...
(Excerpt) Read more at motherboard.vice.com ...
Awesome!
I could use the Dumplingbot.
You spend all day making those and they are gone in 1/2 an hour.
I like Beerbot and Schwarmabot too!
No Obamacare necessary.
Shhhhhh!
They'll add in a clause mandating the extended warranty....
...machines gots rights too, ya know!
With fast food workers demanding $15 an hour I can see these taking hold real fast. A resturant that employed 80 will now run needing only 8.
Those are (oil)boom town prices, boom town wages, and jacking up the wages elsewhere will only see increases in rent and other costs for the worker as the rest of the labor force clamors for raises. Without something far better paying to drive that (oilfield jobs), it would not fly.
The restaurant which could deliver a good (if somewhat mechanized) burger for less would win.
Ha!
Soylent Green!
These robots will free up more people to sweep the floors. That is, until the restaurants buy robot sweepers.
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