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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: 2) by donkeyhotay on Thursday September 14 2017, @04:12PM
That's what I was thinking. The McD-type places are already fairly automated. As someone else pointed out, a "burger flipper" would slow them down.
What this kind of robot can do is make it possible for a single person, or couple, who want to open their own burger joint, to meet demand without having to deal with unreliable human employees. They still have control over the recipes, formulations, etc. In this light, it could be a good thing.