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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: 1) by khallow on Thursday September 14 2017, @06:49PM
If you really want to find an example of human dominance displays on SN, just look at your post. Anonymous libel of people you don't like is a classic human dominance play.
"Competition is the only thing that matters" is a pure straw man. Just because we remark on the fact that failing to compete at a variety of levels has grave consequences doesn't mean that TMB and I think it is the only thing that matters.
And dominance is not the only strategy for successful competition. There are several times in the past of Earth where being a large, strong animal was a death sentence. For example, I've heard that we don't know of any animal over 40 kg which survived the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Economically, we see that all the time with old companies routinely dying of their flaws while younger, smaller, more nimble companies replace them.