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My guess: it's so far turned out to be impossible to build a robot that works and tolerates the humidity and grease of a kitchen, and has an hourly amortized co
by throwawayboise 5y ago
My guess: it's so far turned out to be impossible to build a robot that works and tolerates the humidity and grease of a kitchen, and has an hourly amortized cost of ownership less than what it would cost to pay a human.
- SerLava 5y agoAnd McDonalds would have to pay for the cost of taking care of the robot
- XorNot 5y agoIndustrial food production has had this problem nailed at scale though. I'm not even sure the technology isn't there - I think there's just not enough people working in the space to find the right design.
- willcipriano 5y agoYou have to sell a lot of $1 hamburgers to recoup the costs on your million dollar hamburger assembly machine.
- Nasrudith 5y agoIndustrial robots work repetitive tasks for high efficiency but have high capital costs. Fast food beat out automat style resturants for several reasons but one of them was the versatility of human labor. It seems to be a case of "we know how to do it but not do it cheap enough to be worth it".
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