[IYAS9YAS]

$1500 a month is a hefty salary for a burger flipper.

Considering Flippy will work from open to close with no breaks, no sick time, and no spitting in the food, it's a good deal. If your McDonalds is open from 6:00 AM to Midnight, that's 18 hours a day times thirty days. 540 hours a month for a thirty-day month. $1,500 divided by 540 is $2.78/hour.

[Svartalfiar]

Considering Flippy will work from open to close with no breaks, no sick time, and no spitting in the food, it's a good deal. If your McDonalds is open from 6:00 AM to Midnight, that's 18 hours a day times thirty days. 540 hours a month for a thirty-day month. $1,500 divided by 540 is $2.78/hour.

Plus a $30M up-front cost to purchase it, and that probably does not include installation costs?
Does this monthly "software" cost include free servicing when the robot needs to be reset/realigned?
What about general maintenance or any kind of needed repairs?
Who flips the burgers when the machines are down for maintenance? The one lonesome manager on duty, since all the other employees were replaced by the robit?

While it sure seems good, that's a pretty big monthly charge, and I don't see many places adopting this, especially if they're the ones paying for everything else. I would think a self-contained grilling machine would be much better, cheaper, and more effective. Why make it an arm on a rail operating grills designed for humans, when you can just make a box that does the same cooking, is contained, safer, simpler, cheaper, likely easier to repair, simple to install, and produces the same product?