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The kitchen assistant, known as 'Flippy', was designed by a startup called Miso Robotics which specializes in "technology that assists and empowers chefs to make food consistently and perfectly, at prices everyone can afford."
[...] Flippy uses feedback-loops that reinforce its good behavior so it gets better with each flip of the burger. Unlike an assembly line robot that needs to have everything positioned in an exact ordered pattern, Flippy's machine learning algorithms allow it to pick uncooked burgers from a stack or flip those already on the grill. Hardware like cameras helps Flippy see and navigate its surroundings while sensors inform the robot when a burger is ready or still raw. Meanwhile, an integrated system that sends orders from the counter back to the kitchen informs Flippy just how many raw burgers it should be prepping.
Source: http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/burger-robot-flipping-meat-0432432/
(Score: 4, Insightful) by BasilBrush on Thursday September 14 2017, @03:54PM (3 children)
This would slow McDonalds down. McDonalds cook both sides of the patty at once. The grills have a lid with a second upside down grill in it.
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 14 2017, @05:35PM
The grills have a lid with a second upside down grill in it.
I'm surprised the robot doe't do it that way, actually. Seems a lot easier.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday September 14 2017, @07:49PM
Industrial George Foreman grill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 15 2017, @10:12AM
For what it's worth, they're called "top-side cookers" or were when I worked there quite some years ago. The individual "lids" are/were sometimes referred to as "platens".