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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: 4, Insightful) by MostCynical on Sunday September 02 2018, @10:27PM (3 children)
Is it a selfie if a robot took the picture?
People might even let the
companyrobot post to their social media accounts. Yay, permissive data mining might make this viable.."I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @10:29PM (1 child)
It's a selfie if the camera is attached to your chopsticks.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday September 02 2018, @10:43PM
Traditional: upskirt.
Now: up nose.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday September 03 2018, @12:17AM
That's the very business idea I was referring to.
Make a 'waiter robot', doesn't matter if it brings no real advantage to the consuming patrons, as long as they accept it and the restaurant owner is going to derive a... how should we put it?... 'steady stream of alternative income'.
May be a fad, but it may be good enough to sucker some crowdfunding campaigns along with some restaurants cattering for hipsters.
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford