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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 Gaaark on Monday March 12 2018, @04:26PM
You could replace a lot of the cashiers: voice recognition takes a standard order, one cashier takes non-standard orders (such as my 'no bun, no cheese, lettuce wrapped burger' order) (although you could replace a human for that as well).
The computer prints out what you ordered and asks for confirmation: you click yes. Order is totalled, feed money into machine and change is given (or debit, etc) and order is sent to kitchen staff.
Flippy does burger's, humans do order.
1. No fry cook
2. No cashier
3. No irate customer for cashier to deal with, so fuck you customer AND staff
4. Profit!
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