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Dishwashing can surely be done/automated now? A restaurant standardises a range of dish dimensions, these are mechanically sorted on a 'line' then cleaned accor
by zhte415 8y ago
Dishwashing can surely be done/automated now? A restaurant standardises a range of dish dimensions, these are mechanically sorted on a 'line' then cleaned according to their specification and surface scanned for error/reclean/escalation. No AI needed, decades old tech suffices.
- oldgradstudent 8y ago> No AI needed, decades old tech suffices. This can be said of quite a lot of startup companies these days. Compare the Zume robot shown in this video https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-07/softbank-in-talks-to-invest-up-to-750-million-in-zume-the-startup-that-sells-robot-made-pizza https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-07/softbank-... to any number of videos showing factories making pizza such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdWftLcvmGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdWftLcvmGM
- danans 8y agoIn large-enough scale food serving operations (i.e. hotels) I imagine it is already automated to a large extent. It's the domestic dishwashing use case that Andrew Ng's robot was trying to solve. For smaller restaurants, the capital cost of standardized automation may be significantly higher than the marginal cost of low-wage dishwashing labor, who also can accomplish other tasks around the restaurant, like bussing, prepping, and cleaning, and therefore might not be worth it.