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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.
Source: http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/burger-robot-flipping-meat-0432432/
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday September 17 2017, @12:25PM (4 children)
Let us also note that Social Security is expected [cbo.gov] under current law to exhaust its imaginary trust funds by 2030. By then, it'll be spending about 30% more than it takes in revenue. That's less than 15 years.
Nor is this something out of the blue. People have been warning about the coming default of SS for decades. For example, we have this bit from the 1936 Republican Party platform:
Wow, a bunch of political hacks from 1936 were able to figure out one of Social Security's little flaws. If only someone had been paying attention over the past 80 years to fix that. Let's add to your list of economic illiteracies, the inability to think 15 years ahead.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday September 17 2017, @07:27PM (3 children)
Now isn't the first time we've had a republican dominated congress with a republican president, yet somehow the issue never got addressed?
We could easily solve it inflation free by ordering banks to up their reserve to 20% and as they "unprint" money, the treasury re-prints it and pays it to retirees.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:00PM (2 children)
That would only work once, if it works at all. Then you'd be back there again in a decade or two. Cutting benefits is the only long term solution.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:46PM (1 child)
Nope, after that, we'll be past the population bubble that was the boomers and we'll have foreigners paying in but not elligable to take out later. Or, we could scrap SS entirely once the basic income is in place.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday September 18 2017, @03:44AM
Get them to pay for Trump's Wall while you're at it.
Let us keep in mind the key reason I brought up SS in the first place. That it exhibits a bunch of problems that a basic income scheme would have to surmount in order to be viable in the long run.