Burger-flipping robot taken offline
Flippy the burger-flipping robot that started work this week in a California restaurant has been forced to take a break because it was too slow.
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Burger-flipping robot begins first shift
Flippy, a burger-flipping robot, has begun work at a restaurant in Pasadena, Los Angeles.
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Burger-flipping robot will grill meat in 50 fast food restaurants
Scholars have warned that demand for low-skilled jobs will drop sharply following automation and flipping burgers is definitely on the robo-overlord menu, as CaliBurger can attest.
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McDonald’s hits all-time high as Wall Street cheers replacement of cashiers with kiosks
McDonald’s shares hit an all-time high on Tuesday as Wall Street expects sales to increase from new digital ordering kiosks that will replace cashiers in 2,500 restaurants.
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In a decade many fast food restaurants will be automated, says Yum Brands CEO
AI, robots and automation could replace humans in the food services industry “by the mid [2020s],” Yum Brands CEO Greg Creed told CNBC.
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Burger-flipping robot replaces humans on first day at work
A burger-flipping robot has just completed its first day on the job at a restaurant in California, replacing humans at the grill. Flippy has mastered the art of cooking the perfect burger and has just started work at CaliBurger, a fast-food chain.
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Robots will destroy our jobs – and we’re not ready for it | The Guardian
The McDonald’s on the corner of Third Avenue and 58th Street in New York doesn’t look all that different from any of the fast-food chain’s other locations across the country. Inside, however, hungry patrons are welcomed not by a cashier waiting to take their order, but by a “Create Your Taste” kiosk.
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Chinese restaurants are replacing waiters with robots – Tech Insider
Chinese restaurants started to replace their workers with robots as early as 2006. Though some have proven pretty incompetent, they’re still cheaper than human wait staff — the approximate $1,200 up-front cost per robot is just a couple months’ salary for an average server in China (though robot prices vary).
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Robots In Fast Food Restaurants | PYMNTS.com
San Francisco will soon get its very own burger-flipping robot.
A startup called Momentum Machines debuted a robot a few years ago that can cook and serve up to 400 burgers per hour – and now the company is creating a restaurant concept around said robot.
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