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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday September 14 2017, @02:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-many-hours-@-$15 dept.

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

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.

Flippy in action!

Source: http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/burger-robot-flipping-meat-0432432/


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday September 14 2017, @07:01PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 14 2017, @07:01PM (#568014) Journal
    It's all marketing. The former was when there was no practical purpose to pie-in-the-sky automation and robotics. Then one needed big, vague ambitions to get funding. Now that there is practical application to these thing, it's being marketed in a more Earthy manner to businesses which might actually consider it.

    Perhaps it would be better to set aside the fluffy marketing of your childhood and the present, and accept automation, robotics, AI, etc for what it is rather than what you were promised it would be?
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