> Well, it will make a million people unemployed if this tech is rolled out across restaurants, so it'll certainly have a large effect on society. It won't, s

> Well, it will make a million people unemployed if this tech is rolled out across restaurants, so it'll certainly have a large effect on society. It won't, so many positions still remain unfilled since COVID that closures due to staff shortages/COVID outbreaks have been normalized; assuming this tech could scale to be above a certain standard (this looks like public school cafeteria food at best) all it would do is lower labour costs by putting downward pressure on current wages--which are barely at livable levels and will not yield a lower consumer cost as shortages for ingredients keep occurring. There is no real advantage, and the threat of SV titans disrupting the Food Industry is was all smoke and mirrors. The truth is that COVID revealed that this job (cooking) was not just grossly underpaid and undervalued for what it was, but those who were able to used the opportunity to leveraged the skills they learned to move on to a less exploitative/demanding Industry and that the tech was simply not there to do much--even Ghost Kitchens, which still rely on Human labour, have a greater chance at capturing these job losses from brick and mortars than anything else as the effective cost savings are clear (lowering overhead to it's bare essentials and offering many menus in one location). Despite being a proponent of automation in the food industry, specifically at it's origin on the Farm, I doubt this tech will ever be a real threat and will remain a novelty at best and is at it's core just cashing in on the froth of vC money leftover from these last 2 years. You can repeat all the mistakes and losses Doordash/UberEats et al have made to gain marketshare in a captured market, but without a Softbank backing you and really only wanting a sweet IPO exit it simply doesn't seem as lucrative or feasible to disrupt anything.