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Bad headline. Right there in the article: “The burgers are cooked on-site at [a nearby] McDonald’s and then immediately loaded into the heated machine, which
by joezydeco 10y ago
Bad headline. Right there in the article:
“The burgers are cooked on-site at [a nearby] McDonald’s and then immediately loaded into the heated machine, which is refilled on an ongoing basis to ensure fresh quality,”
It's just spitting out preboxed items like any other vending machine. Humans are still involved.
- brandon272 10y agoThat's what I was wondering when I first saw this; that there was no way this machine was doing any cooking. And that it would need to be routinely refilled with food and beverage ingredients. There would also need to be some way to deal with mistakes being made. (i.e. What happens if you make a mistake while ordering, or you pay for your order and then it spits out half a burger or a watery soft drink?) And that's to say nothing of ongoing servicing, maintenance and development.
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoI assume by "human interaction" they meant that customers don't hand money to a human, not that no humans were involved at any stage in the process.
- joezydeco 10y agoYet we don't see daily headlines declaring "Coca-Cola machine sells cans of soda to humans without interaction". I'll stand by the premise that this is clickbait, centered around a marketing event from McDonald's, loosely gathered on paranoia about replacing fast-food workers with robots.
- ianai 10y agoThe end customer doesn't actually interact with anybody directly.