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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @06:09PM
I think the low quality of service is more tied to the shitty wages. Crappy jobs are OK when you're actually gaining something from it, but the minimum wage is so low that people rightfully feel offended at being paid shit. The US is/was the economic powerhouse, yet millions of citizens are stuck working shit jobs for shit pay.
It is not useful to compare to developing economies to try and tell people to suck it up. Inequality brings about unhappiness. People know they are getting shafted, and frequently that goes along with shitty scheduling and managers who aren't very pleasant to work with.
TL:DR systemic issue with society, possibly some amount of "too good for such work" after being sold the American Lie (Dream)