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This is either going to end up dominating the food delivery business (unlikely, but possible) or present yet another case study in Silicon Valley delusions. It

This is either going to end up dominating the food delivery business (unlikely, but possible) or present yet another case study in Silicon Valley delusions. It's entirely possible, easy even, to automate the pizza making process. You can go to the grocery store and purchase frozen pizzas which have never been touched by human hands. Exactly none of them are made by industrial robots. Industrial robots cost more than a pizza assembly line does, and they don't do anything that the line can't do. The only way this could make sense is if they could get them robots to make lots of other things, but, well "best of luck with that." At $18 for a pizza, they obviously aren't saving enough money on labor to pass this on to consumers.

thaumasiotes 10y ago
> You can go to the grocery store and purchase frozen pizzas which have never been touched by human hands. Exactly none of them are made by industrial robots. Industrial robots cost more than a pizza assembly line does, and they don't do anything that the line can't do. What's an industrial robot? Why is a fully-automated assembly line not considered robotic?
- JoeAltmaier 10y ago
  I think it is - anything that measures and responds is 'robotic'. http://www.refrigeratedfrozenfood.com/articles/83570-pizza-processing-spotlight http://www.refrigeratedfrozenfood.com/articles/83570-pizza-p...
oxide 10y ago
I can get a cheap, shitty pizza for 8.50 out the door, with a max wait of 10 minutes at the local Lil Caesers. Thats a human made, human served pizza. How is this pie equivalent in price to the more premium pizza I can have across the street at Round Table, also served and made by humans? It doesn't add up.
carterehsmith 10y ago
Questions for people with some knowledge of engineering (I got none). It is about the 56-oven pizza truck: - How much power (or propane or whatever) do you need to run these ovens? - How much heat they emit in the truck, as a waste? Looks like some cooling is required. How much power for that. - What is the power source for the above items. Fuel, propane, batteries? - It kind of looks dangerous to have fuel or propane or batteries next to a bunch of running ovens? If so, where to put the fuel and where to put the engine. - Having flammable cardboard where the ovens are looks too dangerous. How do they get the pizza from the oven to the cardboard? I hope it's not the poor driver squeezing between a bunch of running ovens to get to the right one and get the pizza out?

thaumasiotes 10y ago

> You can go to the grocery store and purchase frozen pizzas which have never been touched by human hands. Exactly none of them are made by industrial robots. Industrial robots cost more than a pizza assembly line does, and they don't do anything that the line can't do. What's an industrial robot? Why is a fully-automated assembly line not considered robotic?

JoeAltmaier 10y ago
I think it is - anything that measures and responds is 'robotic'. http://www.refrigeratedfrozenfood.com/articles/83570-pizza-processing-spotlight http://www.refrigeratedfrozenfood.com/articles/83570-pizza-p...

oxide 10y ago

I can get a cheap, shitty pizza for 8.50 out the door, with a max wait of 10 minutes at the local Lil Caesers. Thats a human made, human served pizza. How is this pie equivalent in price to the more premium pizza I can have across the street at Round Table, also served and made by humans? It doesn't add up.

carterehsmith 10y ago

Questions for people with some knowledge of engineering (I got none). It is about the 56-oven pizza truck: - How much power (or propane or whatever) do you need to run these ovens? - How much heat they emit in the truck, as a waste? Looks like some cooling is required. How much power for that. - What is the power source for the above items. Fuel, propane, batteries? - It kind of looks dangerous to have fuel or propane or batteries next to a bunch of running ovens? If so, where to put the fuel and where to put the engine. - Having flammable cardboard where the ovens are looks too dangerous. How do they get the pizza from the oven to the cardboard? I hope it's not the poor driver squeezing between a bunch of running ovens to get to the right one and get the pizza out?