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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: 3, Informative) by PocketSizeSUn on Thursday September 14 2017, @09:43PM

    by PocketSizeSUn (5340) on Thursday September 14 2017, @09:43PM (#568098)

    Yes this is a lot closer to what happened.
    The social contract of mobility within the workplace has evaporated ... somewhere in the late 80s.
    There was time when you started at the bottom, worked hard, got recognized rewarded and worked for the same company until you retired.

    Now that kind of loyalty is not reciprocated and in fact management is generally hostile to all employees below the C-level. Everyone is replaceable.
    If you become irreplaceable the company panics and hires dozens of cogs until you are replaceable and promptly removed.

    Another strategy is to simply move the entire company somewhere cheaper, coaxing a few 'key' people to move ... hires dozens of cogs until key people are replaceable, rinse, repeat.

    Given the broken contract finding people that do work hard and go the extra mile implies that such people do so for other less clear reasons. For myself it is pride in my work, regardless of my client / employers expectations. I suspect that is more a production of the time in which I grew up and I still want to believe that social contract exists (even though I have more than enough experiences showing me that it does not).

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