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.”
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“which is why cheap illegal labor has kept back capital investment”
i knew cheap illegal labor was suppressing wages, but i never thought about the suppression of capital investment ... makes total sense ...
That should be interesting.
I wonder if a hacker could ruin these things?
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