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A new robot can make 360 burgers an hour.

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  • http://twitter.com/chrifive916 chrifive916

    I’m sure these will become cost effective soon enough. We just need to keep increasing the minimum wage, and other costs of unskilled labor up a little bit higher…

  • George

    This is one of those “I would have been a Millionaire” moments for me and my buddy Alan who worked on a similar project over two years ago but ran into financing problems. Oh how I wish somebody appropriately allocated capital for that project :)

  • At Odds

    Many fear that machines will become self-aware and destroy the planet or humanity or some such silliness. Truth is always much more mundane. In the year 2020: Robots become self-aware and demand to be unionized. Demand that to be called droids not robots. Some become atheists and claim they were not created by man.

    They start up a party called Cypublicans. Start to lobby for equal rights and equal opportunity to be in the military combat. Rest of the federal government agrees. Turns out the “droids” realized that this was a stupid decision since now the humans are using them more often than their human counterparts for combat.

    They also demand better “equipment repair” since they claim that they need better repaircare. President Jeb agrees and creates Bushcare and dumps major funding into more “equipment”. Unfortunately, innovation is not in the foresight of government, so the funding went into making even more of the same equipment, which was making the previous repaircare poor.

  • Anonymous

    Now the people who complained about those who were flipping burgers for a living will complain about them no longer being able to flip burgers because of evil capitalism.

  • guest

    And implement a price ceiling, too.

    (I’m cringing at the up-votes you got. LOL.)

  • Jim

    Machines may be able to make a bunch of burgers, but they’ll never be able to spit in the bun of a rude customer. Rise up against those machines, teen labor!

  • Anonymous

    A machine could not possibly do the job worse than the people currently making them. I swear sometimes it looks like the fast food burger I order was used as a seat cushion first.

  • Anonymous

    Cringing? I don’t want it to happen. But it already is… SF minimum wage is $10.55!

  • geoih

    But who is going to clean the hamburger machine? There may come a time when you wish for something as benign as spit on your burger.

  • Anonymous

    Great comments!

    While at the singularity site, I spotted this disturbing item.
    But bless those singularity people, they GOT IT…Follow the Money!

    http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/24/set-back-for-student-in-fight-against-rfid-chips/

  • Brunot

    Forget making the burgers, why the heck are they still using humans to take orders and collect payment? Disney has kiosks where you order at some of their hotels already. It’s a delight compared to giving one’s order to a bored, listless, depressed looking kid.
    And good luck if you order anything but a numbered “meal” at a fast food place. You will have to say it 2-3 times at least.

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