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The Robot Revolution Has Snuck Up On Us

posted by martyb on Friday September 04 2015, @07:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the What-would-you-call-a-machine-that-paddles-a-boat-for-you?--A-rowbot! dept.

microtodd writes:

A while back we discussed robot furniture. Now a restaurant in San Francisco is trying to build and run a restaurant run entirely by robots. Now granted, these are not robots like in Asimov's Robot Series. Instead of humanoid-style robots, these are highly specialized, single-purpose machines.

I can foresee a future populated by many, many robots, in which we didn't notice that we were surrounded by them — we were looking for Rosie the Robot and instead got inconspicuous robots that act as automated furniture and interactive surroundings.

What do my fellow Soylenters think? Are we on the verge of a "Robot Revolution" — even if it doesn't look like how 50s sci-fi imagined it would?

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday September 04 2015, @03:52PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Friday September 04 2015, @03:52PM (#232297) Journal

    Nothing snuck up on us. I figured the automat would make a comeback. But this time as a hybrid robotic/restaurant setup. Take McDonalds for example. They are now trialing kiosks to take orders from customers. Next thing you know they have an automated assembly line for making fries, burgers and nuggets. None of that is difficult. Just look at prepared frozen food. Granted not everything can yet be automated 100%. But a cheeseburger, fries and a drink is easy. I wouldn't be surprised if we see robots making fries or burgers at an McDonalds express with one or two meat bags mopping the floors, bathrooms, cleaning the tables and making sure the robots are working.

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