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Burger-flipper has job safety from the AI automation robots. Test runs of Flippy the Burger Flipping robot apparently didn't last more than a day, before Flippy was let go. Apparently he wasn't fast enough, lacked social skills and other workers had to work around him and his giant burger flipping arm. Flippy 2.0 (or whatever) will probably return one day with new burger flipping artificial intelligence, an improved arm and one of them funny Hawkings-like voice boxes so he can chit-chat with the other co-workers.
"Mostly it's the timing," he said. "When you're in the back, working with people, you talk to each other. With Flippy, you kind of need to work around his schedule. Choreographing the movements of what you do, when and how you do it."
Previously: Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday March 12 2018, @09:10PM (1 child)
Agree with you, but you side-stepped my point:
> not going to get significant automation until automation can make the burgers for less, instead of more.
or ... run out of people willing to work for peanuts. Unskilled immigrants and teenagers take jobs that don't pay a living wage nor benefits, allowing owners to cash in.
In places where the minimum wage is rising, and in those states debating single-payer (tiny CA), storefronts using the "labor is not the bulk of the issue" business model may soon have another look at partial automation, if they want to keep the Dollar Menu.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday March 12 2018, @11:17PM
Oh, are you in the U.S.? In the U.S. we squeeze the social programs until cheap labor drips out. These namby pamby minimum wage increasing states can play their utopian pipe dream games, in good 'old Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi - you won't be runnin' out of cheap labor before doooomseday. When the locals get too rich to be bothered, they'll just let in a few more illegal Mexicans and have 'em work off the books. Trump won't be president forever.
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