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Burger-Flipping Robot Will Grill Meat in 50 Fast Food Restaurants

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

MrPlow writes:

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: 1) by khallow on Friday September 15 2017, @07:07PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 15 2017, @07:07PM (#568628) Journal

    And one way of doing that is to take on essentially useless employees whose real job (regardless of job title) is to back whatever plan you have and talk up your accomplishments in meetings, email discussions, etc.

    Then they aren't essentially useless.

    One of the big mistakes a lot of libertarians make is thinking that Apple is playing remotely the same game as Joe's Auto Repair.

    I think of this as more of a straw man. I'm pretty sure most libertarians get that there's a difference. It's not necessarily a relevant difference though.