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from the Could-I-Please-Have-My-Robot-Medium-Rare? dept.
Technology Review reports on a startup restaurant https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611788/engineering-lunch/ that features specialized robots to assemble ingredients and wok-fry them for healthy fast food.
As customers placed their orders, Spyce's automated food storage bins (known as hoppers) reliably fed refrigerated ingredients through a portioning system that measures precise quantities into a red box that zips along a horizontal track. That box, called the runner, collects ingredients and delivers them to one of seven induction-heated woks that spin to tumble the food so it cooks evenly at 450 °F. ...
The development process had some low points,
Even so, their cooking robot was still a work in progress. That fall, it dumped half-cooked food straight onto the counter in front of a potential investor. One outcome of that fiasco: each of the restaurant's automated woks now has a sensor telling it whether there's a bowl underneath.
These MechEs recognized that they might not know much about the restaurant business,
Even as they were perfecting their automated kitchen technology, the founders knew they needed more than technical expertise to develop a successful robotic restaurant. So Farid got in touch with restaurateur Daniel Boulud, the chef-owner of multiple award-winning restaurants and author of nine cookbooks, by guessing his e-mail address in five tries—and the team ultimately convinced him to serve as Spyce's culinary director and invest in the concept.
Check out the link to see how they managed to make kale (reasonably) palatable...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday September 02 2018, @09:25PM (8 children)
Somehow, I was hoping for it to be a robotic soup kitchen. Coming soon?
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @09:34PM (3 children)
The robotic soup kitchen only serves young rich bros in the cafeterias of tech companies that are busy automating the process of hoarding money. The poor, the homeless, the jobless, and former tech bros who got old do not deserve to eat and should just die already.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @10:45PM (1 child)
It's almost as though we need a socialist revolution before technology will mean wealth for the common person.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @02:59AM
socialist revolutions have never helped the common person in the long run.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Monday September 03 2018, @03:02AM
And I have already been drinking robotically prepared coffee for most of my life!
I just loaded the machine... it woke up in the wee-wee hours of the morning and brewed it.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @09:34PM (3 children)
Pretty cheap for a restaurant located in prime real estate -- the claim is USD $7.50 for a nutritious meal (not junk food).
Is there an analogy between a free soup kitchen and "the only price that works on the internet is free"?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @10:22PM (2 children)
If the meal is free, you are the food.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday September 02 2018, @10:36PM
I'm stealing this one.
compiling...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @11:10PM
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