Flippy the hamburger flipping robot

[~~whimsy~~]

Flippy is an autonomous assistant designed to work alongside humans in restaurant kitchens. Created by Miso Robots of Pasadena, California, Flippy recently completed its first shift at a fast food restaurant there — and one day could be put to work in kitchens across the country.

In Pasadena, Flippy is working the lunchtime shift at a CaliBurger restaurant, part of a restaurant chain that also has outlets in Canada, Mexico, and China. But human burger-flippers needn’t flip out about losing their jobs to Flippy; humans are still needed to place the raw patties on the grill and perform other burger-cooking tasks.

300 burgers an hour.

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/watch-burger-flipping-robot-get-work-ncna854536

 

[Will E Worm]

What happens when it breaks down?

 

[~~whimsy~~]

People that went to school and received education and training will get paid to do a above minimum wage job to inspect, repair or replace Mr Flippy.

I am sure if it will break down there will still be somebody there to take over burger flipping.

 

[Will E Worm]

People that went to school and received education and training will get paid to do a above minimum wage job to inspect, repair or replace Mr Flippy.

I am sure if it will break down there will still be somebody there to take over burger flipping.

Sounds like a waste of money. Just keep hiring people who will start at minimum wage.

Too many people out of work will start a war. :stir:

 

[Lee Van Queef]

Reminds me of last week's episode of the X-Files.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Sounds like a waste of money. Just keep hiring people who will start at minimum wage.

Too many people out of work will start a war. :stir:

No they won't. They won't have money to fund their war.

 

[Will E Worm]

No they won't. They won't have money to fund their war.

How do you know they haven't already bought what they need? How about theft?

Many ways this could happen.

 

[Will E Worm]

Reminds me of last week's episode of the X-Files.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmv8ZKR6ek

I can see something like this happening.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

How do you know they haven't already bought what they need? How about theft?

Many ways this could happen.

Nah. They'd lack funds and motivation. No war happening over Mr Flippy. And shame on you for casting that on Mr Flippy!

Plus it'll cut back on the minimum wage gap. Not every fast food joint is going to start using over night.

 

[Will E Worm]

Nah. They'd lack funds and motivation. No war happening over Mr Flippy. And shame on you for casting that on Mr Flippy!

I meant unemployment in general, not just restaurant work.

Plus it'll cut back on the minimum wage gap. Not every fast food joint is going to start using over night.

There isn't any gender wage gap.

The Wealth Gap is a different story.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

I didn't bring up gender.

 

[Will E Worm]

I didn't bring up gender.

I helped you with your thought.

 

[sean miguel]

humans are still needed to place the raw patties on the grill and perform other burger-cooking tasks.

good thing that can never be automated.

 

[icytea]

My next job will have to be a robot repair guy

 

[~~whimsy~~]

I hope there's a Mr Flippy around me. I will get a selfie with it and hopefully be the first to have a Mr Flippy sandwich!

And one day it will all be like this!

 

[Will E Worm]

I hope there's a Mr Flippy around me. I will get a selfie with it and hopefully be the first to have a Mr Flippy sandwich!

And one day it will all be like this!

:nono:

 

[~~whimsy~~]

:nono:

Look who's coming to dinner 2: electric boogaloo

And Mr Flippy wouldn't sell himself out like that. His only love and interest is serving humans delicious, sweet hamburgers.

 

[Rey C.]

People that went to school and received education and training will get paid to do a above minimum wage job to inspect, repair or replace Mr Flippy.

I am sure if it will break down there will still be somebody there to take over burger flipping.

My next job will have to be a robot repair guy

I sincerely hope that you go for it, Mr. Icytea. Really, I do. Your starting base annual salary will be about $62,000 and you will always have a job, anywhere in the developed world. Once you have some expertise under your belt, you'll be flown, all expenses paid, to far away locations to ply your trade. You will be the master of your destiny if you enter the automation field. Everyone from Siemens to iRobot to Haas is hiring and having trouble filling open positions with qualified applicants.

Whether we're discussing the general wealth gap, the living wage or the (make believe) gender wage gap, people in the automation field are generally not affected by any of these things. But people who don't/won't go to school and pursue practical degrees, and the entitled whiners who think that they deserve participation trophies for breathing and a safe space for when something/someone hurts their widdle feelings, they are affected by these things. The guy with an associates degree in robotics and/or instrumentation from a good technical school should make more than the girl who graduates with a bachelor's degree in post-modern feminist women's studies from [NOBABE]Sarah Lawrence[/NOBABE] College. He paid less for his entire two year program (max $30K all in) than she paid for just one year of tuition, room & board ($54K/yr.). And the same would be true for a female that pursues the automation program. All the girl with the [NOBABE]Sarah Lawrence[/NOBABE] fluff degree can do is order a burger from Flippy. The guy (or girl) with that tech degree can fix Flippy... or program him to do all manner of things. One has value. One does not. Pick the field of study that has value.

I know two guys who work for Siemens and they each make well into six figures. Neither has a college degree. These days, I try to counsel young people, who can't decide what they want to do with their lives, to take a hard look at tech school, rather than racking up outrageous student loan debt to get a fluffy liberal arts degree. Especially these days, when liberal arts colleges in the U.S. are more concerned with brainwashing kids with P.C. pablum than providing environments with good, free flowing thought and debate. If I was a young person and had it to do all over again, that's the path that I would choose.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

^^^ what he said ^^^