The Verge we already do. Most process are mechanised and automated. I’m amazed people are surprised about this, how do you guys think the food in the supermarket gets there? Robots at the farm, robots processing, robots cooking, robots packing, robots at transport... this is just another step on efficacy. It’s not a revolution, it is the last in the revolution that began two centuries ago.
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Absolutely! A well developed robot will prepare yummy, healthy, standardized meals of constant quality and cheap. I'll pay a human to make food when I'm looking for creativity or want to be surprised.
Exactly! That's exactly what I was thinking about lol. They won't take your jobs because we'll just get rid of you. You don't want this job anyways! Pff haha
Never really thought about how using robots in restaurants could actually make the food you eat fresher. Of course there'll be other companies (fast food) that won't go that route, but it's cool to see restaurants that care about quality can use this to actually make better food
Why wouldn't fast food restaurants go that route? At McDonalds you used to walk in and see 5 or 6 teenagers at tills at the counter waiting to take your order. Now there is 1 human and 4 touchscreens. If a Burger making robot costs $100,000, and minimum wage is $10 an hour... that's $20,000ish a year for a Full Time person. If you can get rid of 2 people and the Robot will last more than 3 years... it's cheaper. Where I live minimum wage is $11/hour and it's going up to $15. You BET McDonalds will replace burger flippers with bots!
I really want to see robot /artificial intelligence to start processing ideas at their own and start making robot without any human help so every become jobless. If you are IT..guy, than the golden age is at it peak at the moment, and before you know, you will at the row with person who is flipping burger or mapping your office floor, in fact you will be less advantage because that person can adopt to leave on almost nothing... So to whom it may concern, don't get too excited. I think it should be adopted law that put extreme high tax on profit that comes strickly from robot as labor, extreme high tax on corporation that use the robots as main source of their labor, and high incentives to corporations who hires more human labor.. Otherwise, large corporations going to be in huge advantage for designing their robots that fit their needs while small business ultimately shut down because the high payroll compare to their competitors...if you open robot pizza franchise with one person, compare to pizza shop with 4 or 5 workers, you are going to sell pizza for 4 while small business asking for 10 to pay his payroll...
Well it will take your job lol. I used to work at mcdonalds. Before they rolled out the kiosk's we would have on avg 6 people on tills. Now there is 1 person. Why, because kiosks take peoples orders better than people do. And it's cheaper. Just say it will take your job, because it will.
It is the same at Costco. I would typically see 3-4 people on tills, 3-4 people in the back putting things together. Now they have the kiosks, 1 till and 3 runners/pizza makers. Half the people and the orders come out faster, I don't see this slowing down. Especially when people in my field are payed so well to design this automation. As far as McDonalds they have been automating and reducing incrementally for a looong time. Example, when I 1st started at McDonalds you actually placed the frozen patties, then flipped after a timer went off. Then pull. Now they place them, push a button, a pallet comes down and when it pops up you just pull them, once they automate pulling that part will be done. When I last was involved with backend at McDs, what used to be 5-6 is now 2-3 people. Kiosks at Mcds did make and impact, as they typically have 1 cashier (not dedicated) to handle those not using the kiosk or handle issues. Walmart (the smaller one) pulled out all of their cash stations, put all automated checkouts except 1 station. So now there are 20 lines open all of the time and therefore checkout is faster. Again faster checkout and leave will cause automation to take over. the next step is WIP is to check out the cart. Is pushed into the checkout stand, all items are processed without touching them, and you pay the total. Walk out, as more and more states start banning single use bags you just take the cart to your car and unload unbagged into the car unless you have your own carry bags. This is just stuff happening today and stuff over the next 1-2 years. the only saving grace for now is automated cars are still at least 5 years off, so there is still driving.
Haha the funny thing is, here in the Philippines, people hate the kiosks coz it made the service slowerrrrrr instead of linining and getting your order right away, you need to line twice for getting the order. So they blame it and now only very few people use the kiosks.
You have to look deeper. It's not the robot (ppl think of it as a living being because of the movies...sigh) that takes your job. It's the highly skilled engineer that out competes a bunch of lowly skilled servers. He gets investors to give him money to make whole or parts of automation to do a bunch of the servers' jobs. He then collects a brunt of their would-be-paycheck in the form of sales and maintenance contracts. One day he will become really big because of all the servers' paychecks he got. In turn he gives some of it to other engineers, technicians, salespersons, etc...as well as warehouse workers. Those who have no skills...can work in his warehouse instead of McDonalds! In other words, new powerful ppl want you to work for them and not the old powerful people. Same capitalist story for centuries! ;)
I think that the real question is not whether there will or won't be jobs in the new industrial revolution but what having a job will get you in terms of lifestyle. Even if you have a job, it may not be considered as making a valuable contribution to the powers that be. I am seeing this now with young people with University degrees that lead to underemployment, i.e. waiter/server and support living in one room in a communal apartment with the option of riding a bike to work. The future is not brighter.
Loool agree, the guy was touching the tomatoes in the kitchen to get them ready to put inside the machine, other dude was putting the buns in the tubes (I think he was wearing gloves), the lettuce in the tube was already sliced, someone had to handle the big pieces of meat too in the butchery or whatever. Her argument was so bs.
@@Cloopster do you think these workers would stay in the mistreatment and underpay if they had other options available? They are mistreated because of their lack of high paying skills, which will still hold true once the robots displace them :(
Riiiiight... because the unskilled Burger Flipper will be maintaining robots. "Hey Billy! I know you can barely put a burger together... can you figure out why the menu interface is dropping commands to the servos?" Not even that... the Boss won't even know where the problem is. "Hey Billy. The machine is skipping parts of customers orders. Can you fix that?" More like 10 burger flippers lose their jobs. 1 Bot Maintenance dude get hired. 1 Bot doesn't need dedicated full time care... Bot maintenance dude is contracted out. He covers multiple restaurants so really he's replacing 100 burger flippers all around town. Until 5 years later they make a Maintenance Bot that can handle cleaning, routine maintenance and 90% of the most common issues. 9 Bot Maintenance Dudes lose their jobs and 1 gets to stick around to cover the 10% of issues the MaintBots can't and operate the maintenance fleet.
Yeah. The video said both that they won't come for our jobs AND that the restaurants will save money on labor by using machines. So which is it? And how tf is cheap rent an argument here? This is downtown San Francisco. Clearly rent wasn't an issue.
In a high priced area you want to reduce your rental cost by reducing the number of square footage you need. The robots are claimed to need fewer sq ft.
The market is saying those burger flippers should be working somewhere else. By your logic, lawns should be cut by hand-held scissors. Those newfangled power mowers reduce the number of workers needed to mow a lawn from 30 to 3. If a burger place in a certain area is ONLY economically viable because of the robots, that means it wouldn't exist at all. Meaning zero workers, zero demand met for the public, and zero tax collected. Defending low-tech is a fail on every front.
It's not maintenance in that way, what they meant was loading buns, adding more tomatoes to the slicer, making sure that everything is running on the production line the way it should, they even showed in the video people doing all that. Obviously they'd have someone more skilled, someone who built the machine to maintain the software etc. jeez... does this really have to be explained? Watch the damn video...
So a solution to the crazy cost of living in San Francisco which makes it too expensive to pay employees and for the those employees to live in the city which they would work, is to eliminate those jobs by replacing the humans with robots.......which drops the business costs for employers, but doesn't really help to calm the fear that in a world getting more expensive by the minute, that companies will simply continue to find ways to drop human labor for machines which just require a few people for occasional maintenance.
This might be great for an expensive place like San Fran, but what happens when the Bot Makers start selling them in smaller towns where the cost of rent isn't $30k/yr? And never mind maintenance. Once machines like this become standard, they will develop a maintenance bot that can handle cleaning, routine maintenance and the top 90% of common failures. Techno Communism is coming... mark my words! 50 years from now 90% of jobs will be automated. What will happen when we reach 90% unemployment? I hope we start giving people what they need for free, because Bot-Labor produces it.
This video answered no questions about taking jobs away from human workers. It's only telling us that the few jobs left will likely pay higher... Not to mention the increased skill requirement in servicing complex machinery, which might take those available jobs out of the hands of minimum wage workers just trying to get by.
Automation is inevitable. Robots are simply cheaper investments and makes businesses more efficient with their spend (like in the video example, money is reinvested in better ingredients). I think this is a win for their target market. For something called 'fast food', this kinda makes sense. However, it does not answer the problem of unemployment. What it can offer is higher quality jobs with better pay for work that bots can't cover. It's sad but eventually systems will find a way to reallocate the work force because economies will fall if there are less and less consumers who actually have money to pay for goods.
Charles dela Cruz Agreed, I'm all in favor of the Automated Utopia in which humans are freed up to just do what they love while robots take care of hard labor. If we ever see that though, I don't think it'll be for a very long time and the transition is going to be very rough
@@Vi-pv3xi You kinda have to pay them, they probably cost a fortune plus maintenance and repairs. Still probably cheaper and less problematic than humans.
That's not true, about people not touching your food. They may not be touching the 'finished product,' but how do you think all the ingredients got into the machine in the first place, by magic? Hahaa!
That's misleading, they still have to touch all the ingredients to stock the machine. So people are still touching everything on the burger. Plus the food sits in tubes for extended periods of time so it's technically not fresh. Eventually somebody has to eat the last burger in the tube and who knows how long its been in there. Plus it is touching all the fresher burgers above it when restocked unless they change the tube out after its empty.
It's otherwise sitting around in a cooler because restaurants need to keep their stock somewhere so going by that logic nothing is fresh and it doesn't matter. The point is it's fresher than, say, presliced produce. And given that it's a cheap restaurant in a big city I doubt the time produce stays in the tubes is as terrifying as you make it out to be.
"robots can pick up that slack and do those repetitive tasks that humans don't really need to do"..... yeah those are called JOBS and you literally just described robots taking those JOBS.
They take outdated jobs. However, they create jobs as well. Robots need to be maintained, calibrated, HACCP quality control frequency can be increased and people just need to be stand-by in case the machine is failing.
There are more fulfilling skills people can acquire. Taking orders is not a scalable skill set. I can guarantee you we will see a rise in robotics jobs, analysts jobs, and higher paying jobs in general catered to designing, building, and managing machines like these.
Sure. I'm pro machine, btw. But...the point of the machine is to save / make more money. IF that is in regards to rent space, sure! But generally, it's to save on labor costs. If a restaurant spend 200k on a machine and then even more money for the labor to run the machine, that's not going to work.
Before computers, clerks in banks manually tally account transactions and keep typing each ledger all day long. Just think if banks did not started using computers to save JOBS how our modern world would be? Now we have multiple branches of banks which can be managed by smaller people instead of bigger branch having multiple employees...maybe you don't need to go to a branch....you get everything on your mobile!
Firstly, flipping burgers qualify someone as a chef now?? Secondly, this is a classic argument I see a lot. It can be easily rebutted with the fact that it will become a positive once the former employees get another job. If you have this way of thinking to govern the world, then we would not have pretty much anything really. The car beats the carts so that wouldn't be allowed, a stronger battery wouldn't be allowed since it beats the other batteries.
4:26 What they're actually saying is that they can't find people willing to work at the wage that they're offering. That means that though robots may not directly replace humans, they're starting to undercut humans. That's not a bad thing as long as we accept that people are rapidly starting to become obsolete through no fault of their own.
I really want to see robot /artificial intelligence to start processing ideas at their own and start making robot without any human help so every become jobless. If you are IT..guy, than the golden age is at it peak at the moment, and before you know, you will at the row with person who is flipping burger or mapping your office floor, in fact you will be less advantage because that person can adopt to leave on almost nothing... So to whom it may concern, don't get too excited. I think it should be adopted law that put extreme high tax on profit that comes strickly from robot as labor, extreme high tax on corporation that use the robots as main source of their labor, and high incentives to corporations who hires more human labor.. Otherwise, large corporations going to be in huge advantage for designing their robots that fit their needs while small business ultimately shut down because the high payroll compare to their competitors...if you open robot pizza franchise with one person, compare to pizza shop with 4 or 5 workers, you are going to sell pizza for 4 while small business asking for 10 to pay his payroll...
I really want to see robot /artificial intelligence to start processing ideas at their own and start making robot without any human help so every become jobless. If you are IT..guy, than the golden age is at it peak at the moment, and before you know, you will at the row with person who is flipping burger or mapping your office floor, in fact you will be less advantage because that person can adopt to leave on almost nothing... So to whom it may concern, don't get too excited. I think it should be adopted law that put extreme high tax on profit that comes strickly from robot as labor, extreme high tax on corporation that use the robots as main source of their labor, and high incentives to corporations who hires more human labor.. Otherwise, large corporations going to be in huge advantage for designing their robots that fit their needs while small business ultimately shut down because the high payroll compare to their competitors...if you open robot pizza franchise with one person, compare to pizza shop with 4 or 5 workers, you are going to sell pizza for 4 while small business asking for 10 to pay his payroll...
If a robot is built to do something humans were doing before, it's literally taking their job. They may switch to other jobs that have to do with maintaining the robot - but these jobs are often fewer in number or require different qualification, or require less qualification which means less pay, or offer no career prospects. A burger robot is just another tool of corporate greed, and I feel insulted by this channel trying to tell me otherwise. All would be nice and fine if we let robots do the work and enjoyed our free time - if we didn't _have_ to work something, anything, for 40h a week to be entitled to food and shelter. We'd have to get the politics in place to prepare for this automated utopia, but that's not going to happen. What's going to happen is poverty, unemployment and the psychopaths hoarding a lot of money hoarding even more.
Automation is so exciting! Farms that sell corn on the husk usually employ over 10 people to sort the corn because around 20% of corn that gets harvested is damaged or spoiled. We work for minimum wage so that amounts to $100/hour or $1000/day. I am working on a machine that could sort corn with extreme accuracy and speed. It takes people about 1 hour to sort a trailer full but this machine can sort it in under 10 minutes. The machine is one upfront cost and the farm makes their money back within a year. This will bring down the costs of corn from $.60/ear to under $.40. Unfortunately? Fortunately? Idk, it will replace thousands of workers all over America.
Things not covered in the video Accessibility to clean those machines Cost of maintaining these machines Down time of these machines How reliable are they Power consumed Number of skilled labour needed to handle these machines Also versatility of these robos For instance can a hamburger robo be modified to something else? I bet humans can be trained to do something else. And a lot more points are ignored. To say the least, these videos are not thorough.
I work in industrial automation. I sell the sensors that machines like this use to see and do things. Automation does not kill jobs. It reallocates human resources to more meaningful areas. Would you enjoy watching potato packaging for 8 hours a day? No? Well good, because I have a $2,500 sensor that does that. Now that person who was watching potatoes can go and do something else in shipping/receiving, moving product, etc. There's currently a labor shortage in manufacturing. Automation is filling the void because there aren't enough people to fill these fields of work. Employee wages at my customer firms generally go up after my company works with them. Same goes for restaurants. Now you can have cleaner restaurants and so on. No need to worry. Also, people enjoy human interaction. Not every restaurant will become automated. Also, automated capital is insanely expensive.
No they are not. The restaurant isn't giving people new jobs. The wouldn't be any point in doing it then. A McDonald's restaurant that has 14 full time worker and the manager replaces them full automates. You now only need two workers and the manager. Tech to maintain the equipment.. another guy to fill the machines. You just reduced your work force by 11 workers. If it worked out any other way they wouldn't do it.
Why the 'food expert' even mentioned the argument of cooks touching your food as per se disgusting? TBH i never even thought about it while waiting for my food.
Will not happen, to get sick i had to probably lick to everyone's hands in the restaurant including animals and I wouldnt be so sure. TO get food poisoning one of the ingredients has to be rotten or if they fry food in old oil, Is not that simple.
I'm starting to honestly think that in the future most menial jobs will be replaced by bots. Instead people will start getting paid for their creativity instead of wasting time on boring tedious jobs. Wouldn't it be amazing, instead let people get paid for their best human trait, creativity; making art, games, videos, ect, let the bots do the dull tedious stuff, :D
I am really looking forward for robotic restaurants being the norm in the future. As a person who has worked in that kind of business making pizzas and burgers, I really can appreciate the effort. I don't think most of the people here know how freaking exhausting it is to work 8 hours straight in these types of workplaces. And yes, some workers will get replaced by a robot. But they could be rehired to make sure, that the robot does everything correctly and maintain it. I mean they already have the experience and know if the robot does anything wrong.
If you don't realize that the number of workers will be cut down until they do end up exhausted with all their tasks, you still don't get people's greed...
I always love it when people say things like, " incorporating the robots greatly lowers overhead, which means business owners can pay their employees better. " Key word being "can". Not ought, not will, but could. Wonder if you can pay half your rent with "my employer could be paying me more."
Do you see how they have to load the buns and how many? Every machine I have ever worked on , installed, maintained always required more people to feed, clear errors, and remove product from the machine. While losing jobs is always operators concern. My experience, (30+years) is more people are ALWAYS needed to keep it running.
@@bambur1 Same with the "computer revolution". It didn't eliminate paper oriented jobs, it just turned the paper into globally dispersed datacenters holding 1 gazillion sheets of virtual papers in EACH hard drive (or is it SSD now, then optical quantum gizmos). Each requiring hundreds of workers from floor moppers to Ph.D's holders to keep running. It's part of human nature. You used to work on the farm and didn't know how to read. Now everyone does and expects every book at one type away. Same goes for hard goods.
I'm a former food service employee, and I admit that see one positive upside to this process... customers will have to start taking responsibility for their orders. I can't tell you the number of times customers will change their minds at the drop of a hat, and not tell an employee, about whether or not they wanted pickles/onions/etc in their order... which leads having to remake orders and such. Seems like that is completely automated from order placing to delivering of final product... and only the customer to blame for order mistakes. On the human side... I can see this hurting people trying to get that first job experience. I'm currently job hunting myself and all postings say that they want people with experience... even in food related industries for jobs like working in the kitchen of, say, a retirement home. This is going to make filling such jobs even harder.
What I like about this idea is the consistency. Whenever you go to a restaurant and order something then come back another day it will probably be off a bit from what you had the first time around. People today want convenience and consistency so in a few years from now we’ll be seeing plenty of these. They have a location here in Boston that makes salads with robots.
That's a very Americanized way of thinking, in most countries, restaurants are local and not big chains. Americans have a very infantile taste and don't like change or anything that challenges them. That's why they travel to a different country and still eat at McDonald's.
You ask for 15 dollars an hour, here's your pink slip. BTW, this is your replacement. Be careful what you ask for, especially when the labor you provide is unskilled labor...
You are incredibly STUPID. AI will soon take ALL jobs. They start off with automating stuff like this, but they already have algorithms that replace Day traders, accountants, etc. AI will take all jobs except for maybe prostitution and Computer Science.
Frank Edwards You fail to understand that I am aware of that. What drives automation is costs (labor), especially when unskilled works demanding higher wages because they feel they deserve more then what they are receiving currently & politicians giving in (capture sympathy votes) and making it law. Then employers in turn lay off employees or cut hours, until they can figure out a way to automate all repeatative jobs. BTW, I work with traders (MBS) they are a long ways from replacing them as their are variables that can't be quantified when trading and require human beings. AI has come along way, but still has a long ways to go... BTW, name calling is far from classy, so keep it civil...
People will always pay more for hand made products. While a large amount of the fast food industry will be automated in the future, there will still be a restaurant industry with plenty of human workers.
I think making farming a purely robot thing will significantly decrease food prices, making a larger portion of the end product's price going towards the workers. I see a future where unprocessed food is freely available due to robots growing and harvesting crops using taxes. This at least will ensure that even if people lost their jobs to robots they'd have all their basics covered: food, shelter, healthcare, and education. We need a universal basic income + robots growing and harvesting food in order for us to survive the inevitable: robots taking over most jobs.
You kind of touched on it in this video and that is the fact that automation can provide cost savings. If technology can provide efficiency and cost savings then robotics will take off, especially if it can provide significant cost savings. I could see robotics coming on board in fast food industry. Heck, most of these fast food establishments are highly automated already.
Human From Earth Is that including digital nomads, artist, and musicians that required to be automated? That's rather stupid for me (even I am pro-automation). -_____- Only form of jobs that *is repetitive, menial and dangerous* that humans do not like it, can be automated. Except some form of jobs that humans want to involve either risky, adventurous activities or both, *can be synergized* [working together] with automation to improve the safety and reliability, such as "truckers"--drivers that ride in a trucks or lorries to carry goods.
I think robotic restaurants, if implemented similarly to Creator, could really make a positive impact in the lives of employees. I'd never thought of the 'fresher food' angle, but that's a key strong point for these machines. You could spend more money on employees and on ingredients while still keeping overall menu prices down. You could ensure quality and consistency (so long as the robots are properly cleaned) while still taking care of your staff. One more benefit is that some workers who find themselves intrigued by the inner workings of these robots could take training courses and become in-house or on-call repair technicians (likely making more money than before) to keep these robotic operations running smoothly! Not everyone will benefit from this point, but having 1-2 repair staff per restaurant would still be quite helpful overall.
Who thinks that if they couldn't have a team of efficient people who drive around to all the locations just refilling these machines and drop the price down to $4.50 that the company wouldn't do it? Also, flipping burgers doesn't seem to be that appealing of a job (not that anyone is actually flipping the burgers with this machine around). It's hot, you stand on your feet all day, grease in your face, it's also kinda dangerous. Why do we aspire to this? Do we aspire to give kids jobs to sow together our Nikes or do we rejoice when kids can be replaced with laser suture machines that are faster and more accurate? Let's get rid of these terrible jobs, get everyone a livable basic income and let everyone spend 100% of their time pursing their dreams.
The point is that we won't need to work. I know it's hard to imagine but, what if we all just did what we wanted? What if we only worked at things we found rewarding on their own and didn't work jobs we hate to pay rent. At that point why live in a crowded city? Why not just find some like minded friends and start re-vitalizing a block of Detroit? Why not grow vegetables and do woodworking in a commune. You could play videogames full time. You could just join 3 bands and tour coffeeshops around the nation. You could bike to every state and try to write the great American novel. The sky is the limit.
Read a bit more history and see how communism has never worked because, guess what kiddo, the human is an inherently selfish and greedy species. Nature as a whole is selfish and greedy. Communism never works. UBI will onl rekt society, check out what results UBI had in Oakland, Canada, Finland. They decided to stop the programs when they saw they are utter failures. You might be well intentioned, but you are extremely naive. And if you think you have a special job that will not be outsourced soon, you're in for a rude awakening in 15-20 years at most. Robots will create an even bigger divide between the 1% (which realistically is probably the 1% of the 1% of the 1%) and the rest of the peasants, and there are only 2 goals one should aspire to: 1. Protest and make sure robots never take jobs 2. Become insanely rich so you are the 1% of the 1% of the 1% (I'm working on the latter)
Health codes with require at least one person be there for cleanliness, fire safety, and CPR. Some place require 2 people after certain hours. That will be it
I like show she says no one touches the burger but you when it clearly shows the guy loading the machine with bread and The other guy cutting the tomatoes 😂
Won't take away jobs yet your main purpose of the robot is to save on labour cost which is usually the highest income statement item in a restaurant. By saving on labour you are essentially eliminating the labour market. Oh because "restaurants find struggle and people dont want to travel too far" is also an excuse. People who need a job and poor will travel farther to get a job. Raising minimum wages are costly to to the restuarant, yet another argument about reducing labour. All their key points are against labour and yet it says it doesn't impact labour force. It highly contradicts. Also its false advertising that robot makes fresher food......how fresh the food is depends on how long it stays in storage when the supplier delivers. Subway also has fresh food when you see the person behind the counter cutting cucumbers. Just because a robot is there, doesn't automatically means fresh. Its all bullshit advertising. Nothing but false and misleading advertising.
I’ve been exposed to so much robotics and automation the past five years in restaurants and grocery stores it’s looks silly seeing a place with a lot of workers now.
A robot will always be cheaper than a human. No matter what the pay rate. The guy that runs Carl Jr's, has been publically in favor of automation in restaurants for longer than the debate over the $15 minimum wage has existed. And in a big expensive city (New York, San Francisco, etc..) people are already getting close to $15 minimum wage. The issue never was minimum wage. It's always been about maximizing profits.
"this machine is more efficient so we can spend more on ingredients" The machine cost money to buy, it is somehow saving money - why - because it doesn't have the labour costs of people. Not exactly difficult maths. I love technology but this is something that needs to be addressed. Watch Humans Need Not Apply by CGP Grey.
They will absolutely take your jobs, the question is what will replace that work. As someone who worked in the service industry, I can tell you it’s by no means a fulfilling experience and I’m happy to cede that work to our future robot overlords. The real issue is policy dealing with labour markets and whether they lead to better or worse quality of life for the people displaced by automation.
In Japan, many years behind they have superior technology to prepare automated food, but this is an American company and located in San Francisco, and it's a startup, that's why there is a lot of attention but is not a big deal.
It's just a different equilibrium approaching. Nobody owes excuses, there is no catastrophe happening, and in that sense the excuses may be considered "lame", yes. Do you, still to this day, assign blame for unemployed horse drivers, to businessmen glorifying steam engines and automobiles?
i am not responsible to answer some one who glorifies irresponsibility like you. if you think that way then you are a low life and sell out. you are supporting the elimination of your future.
The whole notion that robots are not a short term threat to ‘taking your job’ as a food worker is ridiculous. Talk to executives in the call center business. AI is awesome but also the biggest threat to capitalism.
Watch the video again. People do touch the food. There was a guy who put the buns in the tube or cylinder. There was another guy who took out the tomato cores with a knife. Another employee was preparing salad and pouring dressing on it. So people do touch the food, but probably fewer workers get to touch it than in regular fast food joints. The price for burgers made by robots is lower so more affordable. Wonder if you get to choose your burger from a computer like at McDonald's?
I can imagine how tech can add value to outlets: 1. Faster customer purchase transaction. Imagine customers coming in to the shop, if shops still stand in the future, to purchase a service, products, or both (aka restaurants). Why have we adopted cash registers, and shifted from those tape receipt models to LCD displays? Quicker and hopefully less hassle transaction. Tech would shift staff-handled cash transactions to more digital, quick scan and pass methods. Staff can handle other things as shown in this video; stock handling, customer support (real service), and so on. Even better, customers handle all their purchases online, which allows outlets to be more logistic-centered, handle product and service distribution, lowering the threshold for employment (aka skill). 2. Quality control. Imagine food prepared by excellent chefs, who also have had a double degree in food science. Something like that. Chefs can still keep culinary as a fine art, now bolstered by the high-tech preservation and handling of ingredients (less kitchen staff and accidents). Or skills can be brought directly to the home, especially when it is needed; old folks or children with particular needs, special care, etc. Sure, it will be expensive to own such equipment, but what if they are managed the same way copymachines were? A single company dealing with maintenance in such machines in one area, which adds jobs. 3. Better marketing. I had this vision of new-age VR/AR marketing technology, downloaded right into your phone. Sure, marketing today is highly intrusive, but what about added-value marketing? Eg. Add loyalty bonuses to customers' purchasing experiences for their lifestyle, rather than just profit-focused marketing drives. Marketing will be more functional, which encourages demand-driven sales rather than bulk production (no more mass production of sizes when your sales are driven by customer provided sales data). Given point 1, stores may be replaced with affiliated distribution chains, where you become the best distribution link to your local market area (find your nearest distributor). Unless tech can manufacture booze-swigging, cigar puffing Benders, they can not replace interpersonal marketing experiences, no matter how good AI can replicate us, unless we let them (then you'll have a different problem to worry about)
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Would you trust a robot to make you a meal?
nope
let robots make videos then and then videos would be a lot better and it wont take by job but yours
The Verge we already do. Most process are mechanised and automated. I’m amazed people are surprised about this, how do you guys think the food in the supermarket gets there? Robots at the farm, robots processing, robots cooking, robots packing, robots at transport... this is just another step on efficacy. It’s not a revolution, it is the last in the revolution that began two centuries ago.
Absolutely! A well developed robot will prepare yummy, healthy, standardized meals of constant quality and cheap. I'll pay a human to make food when I'm looking for creativity or want to be surprised.
Hell no! That machine won't hook me up with a fat scoop of guacamole because I'm a regular.
Reporter: I'm not a food expert so i asked this other person who is also obviously not a food expert
Other person: Ya the burger is meaty
She just looks like she likes to eat, so they've taken her :O)
Harrison wellls
That killed me.
Facts
@@BeastlyPhoenix why did u say harrison wells ?
So living is expensive in SF for the restaurant workers so we helped them by getting rid of them lol
Precisely lmao
SanFran is ground zero for gentrification. Cost of living is approximately three times more than minimum wage. Think about that.
Exactly! That's exactly what I was thinking about lol. They won't take your jobs because we'll just get rid of you. You don't want this job anyways! Pff haha
It's Demolition Man in real life.
Be well, John Spartan!😁
Never really thought about how using robots in restaurants could actually make the food you eat fresher. Of course there'll be other companies (fast food) that won't go that route, but it's cool to see restaurants that care about quality can use this to actually make better food
Why wouldn't fast food restaurants go that route? At McDonalds you used to walk in and see 5 or 6 teenagers at tills at the counter waiting to take your order. Now there is 1 human and 4 touchscreens.
If a Burger making robot costs $100,000, and minimum wage is $10 an hour... that's $20,000ish a year for a Full Time person. If you can get rid of 2 people and the Robot will last more than 3 years... it's cheaper.
Where I live minimum wage is $11/hour and it's going up to $15. You BET McDonalds will replace burger flippers with bots!
Indeed, perhaps I misinterpreted Lashan's piont.
Good, whatever cuts cost for the consumer and the company I'm in favor of. Oh, and don't get my order wrong.
Whuruuk TheOrk Yep, I meant what Riley said
*walks into mcdonalds*
“burger machine 🅱️roke”
But machines don’t wash their hands after they use the restroom.
Joel Carr Töu-chè!!
They don’t because... They don’t go to the restroom? Maybe? :/
xmr7 pt95 Yeah, ik
@@martinrey5894 r/whooosh
*rest mode* 😎
If only McDonald's had a robot. Then the Big Mac will look like the one on the menu.
Even then it wouldn't... And it'd probably break the ice cream machine just as often
It's all about the camera angle. If the burger is above the camera than the burger will look bigger.
don't worry, McDonald's are bringing robots in for order taking already, and they are working on robot burger makers
never.. They use larger patties and more ingredients than in production. They don't actually make what is pictured.
I really want to see robot /artificial intelligence to start processing ideas at their own and start making robot without any human help so every become jobless.
If you are IT..guy, than the golden age is at it peak at the moment, and before you know, you will at the row with person who is flipping burger or mapping your office floor, in fact you will be less advantage because that person can adopt to leave on almost nothing... So to whom it may concern, don't get too excited.
I think it should be adopted law that put extreme high tax on profit that comes strickly from robot as labor, extreme high tax on corporation that use the robots as main source of their labor, and high incentives to corporations who hires more human labor..
Otherwise, large corporations going to be in huge advantage for designing their robots that fit their needs while small business ultimately shut down because the high payroll compare to their competitors...if you open robot pizza franchise with one person, compare to pizza shop with 4 or 5 workers, you are going to sell pizza for 4 while small business asking for 10 to pay his payroll...
Well it will take your job lol. I used to work at mcdonalds. Before they rolled out the kiosk's we would have on avg 6 people on tills. Now there is 1 person. Why, because kiosks take peoples orders better than people do. And it's cheaper.
Just say it will take your job, because it will.
It is the same at Costco. I would typically see 3-4 people on tills, 3-4 people in the back putting things together.
Now they have the kiosks, 1 till and 3 runners/pizza makers.
Half the people and the orders come out faster, I don't see this slowing down. Especially when people in my field are payed so well to design this automation.
As far as McDonalds they have been automating and reducing incrementally for a looong time.
Example, when I 1st started at McDonalds you actually placed the frozen patties, then flipped after a timer went off. Then pull.
Now they place them, push a button, a pallet comes down and when it pops up you just pull them, once they automate pulling that part will be done.
When I last was involved with backend at McDs, what used to be 5-6 is now 2-3 people.
Kiosks at Mcds did make and impact, as they typically have 1 cashier (not dedicated) to handle those not using the kiosk or handle issues.
Walmart (the smaller one) pulled out all of their cash stations, put all automated checkouts except 1 station.
So now there are 20 lines open all of the time and therefore checkout is faster.
Again faster checkout and leave will cause automation to take over. the next step is WIP is to check out the cart. Is pushed into the checkout stand, all items are processed without touching them, and you pay the total. Walk out, as more and more states start banning single use bags you just take the cart to your car and unload unbagged into the car unless you have your own carry bags.
This is just stuff happening today and stuff over the next 1-2 years.
the only saving grace for now is automated cars are still at least 5 years off, so there is still driving.
Haha the funny thing is, here in the Philippines, people hate the kiosks coz it made the service slowerrrrrr instead of linining and getting your order right away, you need to line twice for getting the order. So they blame it and now only very few people use the kiosks.
You have to look deeper. It's not the robot (ppl think of it as a living being because of the movies...sigh) that takes your job. It's the highly skilled engineer that out competes a bunch of lowly skilled servers. He gets investors to give him money to make whole or parts of automation to do a bunch of the servers' jobs. He then collects a brunt of their would-be-paycheck in the form of sales and maintenance contracts. One day he will become really big because of all the servers' paychecks he got. In turn he gives some of it to other engineers, technicians, salespersons, etc...as well as warehouse workers. Those who have no skills...can work in his warehouse instead of McDonalds! In other words, new powerful ppl want you to work for them and not the old powerful people. Same capitalist story for centuries! ;)
Thats why we need Andrew Yang to win the election
I think that the real question is not whether there will or won't be jobs in the new industrial revolution but what having a job will get you in terms of lifestyle. Even if you have a job, it may not be considered as making a valuable contribution to the powers that be.
I am seeing this now with young people with University degrees that lead to underemployment, i.e. waiter/server and support living in one room in a communal apartment with the option of riding a bike to work. The future is not brighter.
„No one touched it except for you“ - did the bread bake itself?
Great for germophobes, I guess... but ridiculous. Humans have been making food for each other since time began.
Most likely yes, it was made by a machine.
Loool agree, the guy was touching the tomatoes in the kitchen to get them ready to put inside the machine, other dude was putting the buns in the tubes (I think he was wearing gloves), the lettuce in the tube was already sliced, someone had to handle the big pieces of meat too in the butchery or whatever. Her argument was so bs.
Classic
He said the buns are all different sizes factory made buns are all the same size because the machines measure to make them that way.
What about the people who loaded the ingredients into the robot?
"Robot restaurants won't take your job", proceeds to try to justify robot restaurants as minimum wage is rising.
exactly what I thought!
Jobs are just a form of debt slavery anyways
Precisely. How can robo restaurants "take" your job when it won't exist in the first place?
@@Cloopster do you think these workers would stay in the mistreatment and underpay if they had other options available? They are mistreated because of their lack of high paying skills, which will still hold true once the robots displace them :(
They will take mind in healthcare
From burger flipper to maintenance staff. Pretty good promotion imho
Riiiiight... because the unskilled Burger Flipper will be maintaining robots. "Hey Billy! I know you can barely put a burger together... can you figure out why the menu interface is dropping commands to the servos?" Not even that... the Boss won't even know where the problem is. "Hey Billy. The machine is skipping parts of customers orders. Can you fix that?"
More like 10 burger flippers lose their jobs. 1 Bot Maintenance dude get hired. 1 Bot doesn't need dedicated full time care... Bot maintenance dude is contracted out. He covers multiple restaurants so really he's replacing 100 burger flippers all around town.
Until 5 years later they make a Maintenance Bot that can handle cleaning, routine maintenance and 90% of the most common issues. 9 Bot Maintenance Dudes lose their jobs and 1 gets to stick around to cover the 10% of issues the MaintBots can't and operate the maintenance fleet.
Yeah. The video said both that they won't come for our jobs AND that the restaurants will save money on labor by using machines. So which is it?
And how tf is cheap rent an argument here? This is downtown San Francisco. Clearly rent wasn't an issue.
In a high priced area you want to reduce your rental cost by reducing the number of square footage you need. The robots are claimed to need fewer sq ft.
The market is saying those burger flippers should be working somewhere else. By your logic, lawns should be cut by hand-held scissors. Those newfangled power mowers reduce the number of workers needed to mow a lawn from 30 to 3.
If a burger place in a certain area is ONLY economically viable because of the robots, that means it wouldn't exist at all. Meaning zero workers, zero demand met for the public, and zero tax collected. Defending low-tech is a fail on every front.
It's not maintenance in that way, what they meant was loading buns, adding more tomatoes to the slicer, making sure that everything is running on the production line the way it should, they even showed in the video people doing all that. Obviously they'd have someone more skilled, someone who built the machine to maintain the software etc. jeez... does this really have to be explained? Watch the damn video...
"Welcome to Robo-Burger. Your meal is mathematically correct."
heh thats the funniest thing I've read all night.
"Your job is to keep the robot happy."
A robot fluffer?
What is a corporation other than a robotic businessman. Most of us are already working to keep the robot happy.
I just love how the owner eats from his own restaurant and enjoys the food greatly. That's how every owner should be!
So a solution to the crazy cost of living in San Francisco which makes it too expensive to pay employees and for the those employees to live in the city which they would work, is to eliminate those jobs by replacing the humans with robots.......which drops the business costs for employers, but doesn't really help to calm the fear that in a world getting more expensive by the minute, that companies will simply continue to find ways to drop human labor for machines which just require a few people for occasional maintenance.
This might be great for an expensive place like San Fran, but what happens when the Bot Makers start selling them in smaller towns where the cost of rent isn't $30k/yr?
And never mind maintenance. Once machines like this become standard, they will develop a maintenance bot that can handle cleaning, routine maintenance and the top 90% of common failures.
Techno Communism is coming... mark my words! 50 years from now 90% of jobs will be automated. What will happen when we reach 90% unemployment? I hope we start giving people what they need for free, because Bot-Labor produces it.
This video answered no questions about taking jobs away from human workers. It's only telling us that the few jobs left will likely pay higher... Not to mention the increased skill requirement in servicing complex machinery, which might take those available jobs out of the hands of minimum wage workers just trying to get by.
Automation is inevitable. Robots are simply cheaper investments and makes businesses more efficient with their spend (like in the video example, money is reinvested in better ingredients). I think this is a win for their target market. For something called 'fast food', this kinda makes sense. However, it does not answer the problem of unemployment. What it can offer is higher quality jobs with better pay for work that bots can't cover. It's sad but eventually systems will find a way to reallocate the work force because economies will fall if there are less and less consumers who actually have money to pay for goods.
Charles dela Cruz Agreed, I'm all in favor of the Automated Utopia in which humans are freed up to just do what they love while robots take care of hard labor. If we ever see that though, I don't think it'll be for a very long time and the transition is going to be very rough
And just remove the nationality of the future useless unemployed and send them to another country.
SpongeBob will be so mad about this.
@@cheemiis he is not fired, he challenge the robot.
Plebs will be fed by robofood, Bourgeouis will be enjoing manually cooked food by star chefs.
What a world
They need to be stopped man, like we really need to "eliminate" all of the 1% before it's too late
130 burgers an hour isnt that much if you have cooked at a fast food restaurant before
"fast food"
This robot can work 24 hours and you don't pay them.
That's 2.1 min per burger so 2mins and 6 sec so that's fast enough as most burger are time for 6 mins a order
@@Vi-pv3xi You kinda have to pay them, they probably cost a fortune plus maintenance and repairs. Still probably cheaper and less problematic than humans.
That's not true, about people not touching your food. They may not be touching the 'finished product,' but how do you think all the ingredients got into the machine in the first place, by magic? Hahaa!
thankyou
anyone knows how many times the farmers held those cows while they were still mooing, guess not
You can even see it in the video - every ingredient is stuffed into the containers manually or even prepared before by a person.
This machine probably cuts the amount employees touch food in half, from a germ standpoint that’s not nothing.
Ironically, this video actually made a pretty good case for why robots are a threat to jobs.
Exactly, nowhere in the video they showed how robot restaurants won't take people's jobs.
Frfr no cap deadass on god, my dude. We need to keep workers in low value jobs, get the f-ing robuts out of here!
That's misleading, they still have to touch all the ingredients to stock the machine. So people are still touching everything on the burger. Plus the food sits in tubes for extended periods of time so it's technically not fresh. Eventually somebody has to eat the last burger in the tube and who knows how long its been in there. Plus it is touching all the fresher burgers above it when restocked unless they change the tube out after its empty.
It's otherwise sitting around in a cooler because restaurants need to keep their stock somewhere so going by that logic nothing is fresh and it doesn't matter. The point is it's fresher than, say, presliced produce. And given that it's a cheap restaurant in a big city I doubt the time produce stays in the tubes is as terrifying as you make it out to be.
This whole did not touch argument is stupid.
Assuming chefs wash their hands I have no problem with them preparing my food.
Why ask germaphobe?
@@11Argetlam11 still no hairs is a plus...
"robots can pick up that slack and do those repetitive tasks that humans don't really need to do"..... yeah those are called JOBS and you literally just described robots taking those JOBS.
yeah she really stumbled over backwards on answering that question with the exact same statement as the original question, lol.
They take outdated jobs. However, they create jobs as well. Robots need to be maintained, calibrated, HACCP quality control frequency can be increased and people just need to be stand-by in case the machine is failing.
There are more fulfilling skills people can acquire. Taking orders is not a scalable skill set. I can guarantee you we will see a rise in robotics jobs, analysts jobs, and higher paying jobs in general catered to designing, building, and managing machines like these.
Sure. I'm pro machine, btw. But...the point of the machine is to save / make more money. IF that is in regards to rent space, sure! But generally, it's to save on labor costs. If a restaurant spend 200k on a machine and then even more money for the labor to run the machine, that's not going to work.
Before computers, clerks in banks manually tally account transactions and keep typing each ledger all day long. Just think if banks did not started using computers to save JOBS how our modern world would be? Now we have multiple branches of banks which can be managed by smaller people instead of bigger branch having multiple employees...maybe you don't need to go to a branch....you get everything on your mobile!
Problem - Chefs are barely making rent
Solution - Let’s find a way to eliminate their jobs
Lakshay Singhal they aren’t really chefs you know. Chefs earn a lot. These guys are just grad students looking for a part time job
Lakshay Singhal AGREED
they're not qualified chefs. The only qualifications they have is a food handlers permit lmfao.
Firstly, flipping burgers qualify someone as a chef now??
Secondly, this is a classic argument I see a lot. It can be easily rebutted with the fact that it will become a positive once the former employees get another job. If you have this way of thinking to govern the world, then we would not have pretty much anything really. The car beats the carts so that wouldn't be allowed, a stronger battery wouldn't be allowed since it beats the other batteries.
This was planned..
And they fell right into the trap..
4:26 What they're actually saying is that they can't find people willing to work at the wage that they're offering.
That means that though robots may not directly replace humans, they're starting to undercut humans. That's not a bad thing as long as we accept that people are rapidly starting to become obsolete through no fault of their own.
Same burger WITHOUT the attitude!
What do you do for a living?
didnt get spit on ether
I don't see any attitude in repetitive work
I really want to see robot /artificial intelligence to start processing ideas at their own and start making robot without any human help so every become jobless.
If you are IT..guy, than the golden age is at it peak at the moment, and before you know, you will at the row with person who is flipping burger or mapping your office floor, in fact you will be less advantage because that person can adopt to leave on almost nothing... So to whom it may concern, don't get too excited.
I think it should be adopted law that put extreme high tax on profit that comes strickly from robot as labor, extreme high tax on corporation that use the robots as main source of their labor, and high incentives to corporations who hires more human labor..
Otherwise, large corporations going to be in huge advantage for designing their robots that fit their needs while small business ultimately shut down because the high payroll compare to their competitors...if you open robot pizza franchise with one person, compare to pizza shop with 4 or 5 workers, you are going to sell pizza for 4 while small business asking for 10 to pay his payroll...
I really want to see robot /artificial intelligence to start processing ideas at their own and start making robot without any human help so every become jobless.
If you are IT..guy, than the golden age is at it peak at the moment, and before you know, you will at the row with person who is flipping burger or mapping your office floor, in fact you will be less advantage because that person can adopt to leave on almost nothing... So to whom it may concern, don't get too excited.
I think it should be adopted law that put extreme high tax on profit that comes strickly from robot as labor, extreme high tax on corporation that use the robots as main source of their labor, and high incentives to corporations who hires more human labor..
Otherwise, large corporations going to be in huge advantage for designing their robots that fit their needs while small business ultimately shut down because the high payroll compare to their competitors...if you open robot pizza franchise with one person, compare to pizza shop with 4 or 5 workers, you are going to sell pizza for 4 while small business asking for 10 to pay his payroll...
Didn't really cover the "won't take your job" part. Why go on about the price of rent after you said it won't take jobs? I'm Confused.
If a robot is built to do something humans were doing before, it's literally taking their job. They may switch to other jobs that have to do with maintaining the robot - but these jobs are often fewer in number or require different qualification, or require less qualification which means less pay, or offer no career prospects. A burger robot is just another tool of corporate greed, and I feel insulted by this channel trying to tell me otherwise.
All would be nice and fine if we let robots do the work and enjoyed our free time - if we didn't _have_ to work something, anything, for 40h a week to be entitled to food and shelter. We'd have to get the politics in place to prepare for this automated utopia, but that's not going to happen. What's going to happen is poverty, unemployment and the psychopaths hoarding a lot of money hoarding even more.
Learn some new skills then
Automation is so exciting! Farms that sell corn on the husk usually employ over 10 people to sort the corn because around 20% of corn that gets harvested is damaged or spoiled. We work for minimum wage so that amounts to $100/hour or $1000/day. I am working on a machine that could sort corn with extreme accuracy and speed. It takes people about 1 hour to sort a trailer full but this machine can sort it in under 10 minutes. The machine is one upfront cost and the farm makes their money back within a year. This will bring down the costs of corn from $.60/ear to under $.40. Unfortunately? Fortunately? Idk, it will replace thousands of workers all over America.
Things not covered in the video
Accessibility to clean those machines
Cost of maintaining these machines
Down time of these machines
How reliable are they
Power consumed
Number of skilled labour needed to handle these machines
Also versatility of these robos
For instance can a hamburger robo be modified to something else? I bet humans can be trained to do something else.
And a lot more points are ignored.
To say the least, these videos are not thorough.
but they are making money lol
I work in industrial automation. I sell the sensors that machines like this use to see and do things. Automation does not kill jobs. It reallocates human resources to more meaningful areas.
Would you enjoy watching potato packaging for 8 hours a day? No? Well good, because I have a $2,500 sensor that does that. Now that person who was watching potatoes can go and do something else in shipping/receiving, moving product, etc.
There's currently a labor shortage in manufacturing. Automation is filling the void because there aren't enough people to fill these fields of work. Employee wages at my customer firms generally go up after my company works with them.
Same goes for restaurants. Now you can have cleaner restaurants and so on. No need to worry. Also, people enjoy human interaction. Not every restaurant will become automated. Also, automated capital is insanely expensive.
Hey robots. If you're reading this in the future, know that i'm on your side. Please don't kill me, we will be best friends!
He's lying, take him first. I really love you.
"Food Expert" Coworker: Its the freshess burger that has ever been made!
Gordon Ramsay: Hold my apron
A robot would have made a better and more cohesive video.
And eventually, they will do everything better than humans.
Sick burn bro
No of course they won't. But making this video more logical and cohesive wouldn't take that much "processing".
That comment is so brilliantly critic and ironic hahaha, great! At least it sounds like it is...
Daniels i think a robot wrote this comment.
This alien eating burger upside down
Chum bucket is triggered.
No they are not. The restaurant isn't giving people new jobs. The wouldn't be any point in doing it then.
A McDonald's restaurant that has 14 full time worker and the manager replaces them full automates. You now only need two workers and the manager. Tech to maintain the equipment.. another guy to fill the machines. You just reduced your work force by 11 workers. If it worked out any other way they wouldn't do it.
Why the 'food expert' even mentioned the argument of cooks touching your food as per se disgusting? TBH i never even thought about it while waiting for my food.
until you get sick because some nasty worker didn't wash their hands
Will not happen, to get sick i had to probably lick to everyone's hands in the restaurant including animals and I wouldnt be so sure. TO get food poisoning one of the ingredients has to be rotten or if they fry food in old oil, Is not that simple.
Because she's a filthy technocrat that hates humanity.
A robot can't and won't put the LOVE AND PASSION on the kitchen like a chef's passion to make something from scratch.
Unless they add the option, the robot chef doesn’t spit on your burger - hurray 🙄
"Everything you're eating on the burger has been touched by multiple people"
Damn those people ....
I'm starting to honestly think that in the future most menial jobs will be replaced by bots. Instead people will start getting paid for their creativity instead of wasting time on boring tedious jobs.
Wouldn't it be amazing, instead let people get paid for their best human trait, creativity; making art, games, videos, ect, let the bots do the dull tedious stuff, :D
Chefs are creative in their food
@@wild_cam in 4+ star restaurants yes, fast food places, not so much, :v
Not every human has great creativity, and robots can be "creative" too (at least as much as the next pop artist).
I am really looking forward for robotic restaurants being the norm in the future. As a person who has worked in that kind of business making pizzas and burgers, I really can appreciate the effort. I don't think most of the people here know how freaking exhausting it is to work 8 hours straight in these types of workplaces.
And yes, some workers will get replaced by a robot. But they could be rehired to make sure, that the robot does everything correctly and maintain it. I mean they already have the experience and know if the robot does anything wrong.
If you don't realize that the number of workers will be cut down until they do end up exhausted with all their tasks, you still don't get people's greed...
People : but muh job
Answer: this is what happens when you demand way too high minimum wages. Go to your Room till you understand economics
The_Gaming_Syndrom If you can’t afford decent wages, you shouldn’t be in business
I always love it when people say things like, " incorporating the robots greatly lowers overhead, which means business owners can pay their employees better. "
Key word being "can". Not ought, not will, but could. Wonder if you can pay half your rent with "my employer could be paying me more."
And also, what employees if robots are doing all the work?
@@johnc3525 Best start learning how to fix robotics so you can scoop up the pay of 3 of the 5 people who replaced?
I think automation is great, but it's undoubtedly going to kill a lot of jobs.
Do you see how they have to load the buns and how many? Every machine I have ever worked on , installed, maintained always required more people to feed, clear errors, and remove product from the machine. While losing jobs is always operators concern. My experience, (30+years) is more people are ALWAYS needed to keep it running.
@@bambur1 Same with the "computer revolution". It didn't eliminate paper oriented jobs, it just turned the paper into globally dispersed datacenters holding 1 gazillion sheets of virtual papers in EACH hard drive (or is it SSD now, then optical quantum gizmos). Each requiring hundreds of workers from floor moppers to Ph.D's holders to keep running. It's part of human nature. You used to work on the farm and didn't know how to read. Now everyone does and expects every book at one type away. Same goes for hard goods.
I'm a former food service employee, and I admit that see one positive upside to this process... customers will have to start taking responsibility for their orders. I can't tell you the number of times customers will change their minds at the drop of a hat, and not tell an employee, about whether or not they wanted pickles/onions/etc in their order... which leads having to remake orders and such. Seems like that is completely automated from order placing to delivering of final product... and only the customer to blame for order mistakes.
On the human side... I can see this hurting people trying to get that first job experience. I'm currently job hunting myself and all postings say that they want people with experience... even in food related industries for jobs like working in the kitchen of, say, a retirement home. This is going to make filling such jobs even harder.
Machine parts still need to be washed daily, that's a lot of labor involved.
You had me at 'no one touches my burger'!
What if someone ordered medium rare? Or extra ketchup? Or no buns?
those screens have the option i went to this retaurant
the amount of time a person spends cleaning that machine adds up to a single person just makin the damn burger
my wife left me for a robot... it's happening boiz
yea those sybians are hard to compete with eh? xD
What I like about this idea is the consistency. Whenever you go to a restaurant and order something then come back another day it will probably be off a bit from what you had the first time around. People today want convenience and consistency so in a few years from now we’ll be seeing plenty of these. They have a location here in Boston that makes salads with robots.
That's a very Americanized way of thinking, in most countries, restaurants are local and not big chains. Americans have a very infantile taste and don't like change or anything that challenges them. That's why they travel to a different country and still eat at McDonald's.
You ask for 15 dollars an hour, here's your pink slip. BTW, this is your replacement. Be careful what you ask for, especially when the labor you provide is unskilled labor...
was going to happen anyways
automation is inevitable
You are incredibly STUPID. AI will soon take ALL jobs. They start off with automating stuff like this, but they already have algorithms that replace Day traders, accountants, etc. AI will take all jobs except for maybe prostitution and Computer Science.
Frank Edwards You fail to understand that I am aware of that. What drives automation is costs (labor), especially when unskilled works demanding higher wages because they feel they deserve more then what they are receiving currently & politicians giving in (capture sympathy votes) and making it law. Then employers in turn lay off employees or cut hours, until they can figure out a way to automate all repeatative jobs. BTW, I work with traders (MBS) they are a long ways from replacing them as their are variables that can't be quantified when trading and require human beings. AI has come along way, but still has a long ways to go... BTW, name calling is far from classy, so keep it civil...
+HeldroStar just wait until *YOUR* jobs will be automated, you will laugh less
People will always pay more for hand made products. While a large amount of the fast food industry will be automated in the future, there will still be a restaurant industry with plenty of human workers.
Smh someone didnt play Detroit became human
Finally. Someone without attitude and my order is always right!
I can’t wait for restaurants to be completely robotic. From the cooks to wait staff. No more tipping and no more attitude 💯✊🏽
Like just get my shi and move
1990:"there will be flying cars in the future"
The future: robots that make burgers
😆
What a great video, and congrats on 2M subscribers!
I think making farming a purely robot thing will significantly decrease food prices, making a larger portion of the end product's price going towards the workers. I see a future where unprocessed food is freely available due to robots growing and harvesting crops using taxes. This at least will ensure that even if people lost their jobs to robots they'd have all their basics covered: food, shelter, healthcare, and education. We need a universal basic income + robots growing and harvesting food in order for us to survive the inevitable: robots taking over most jobs.
I think it's great.
One more step in the right direction for that terminator apocalypse.
More like Robotaissance
We all ready got burger flipping and robot fryer, now robot are taking jobs
Human will replace by Robot.Then organic food will be in menu.
3:39 but people have touched the food - people need to have prepared the ingredients and stock up the machine beforehand for the machine to make it.
Don't let Google make burgers, they'll mess up the order.
And you'll have to watch an ad before placing your order.
@Whuruuk TheOrk , they might even ask "verify you're human"
"My coworkers had two distinct reactions about robots making their food: One *smile* and tHe oThEr *disgust*"
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You kind of touched on it in this video and that is the fact that automation can provide cost savings. If technology can provide efficiency and cost savings then robotics will take off, especially if it can provide significant cost savings. I could see robotics coming on board in fast food industry. Heck, most of these fast food establishments are highly automated already.
Yes, automate all jobs.
Human From Earth
That's stupid without putting criteria first, such as enjoyble, meaningful vs. menial, repetitive.
Jaret Jose Ulanday All jobs can be automated and or could be made obsolete.
Human From Earth
Is that including digital nomads, artist, and musicians that required to be automated? That's rather stupid for me (even I am pro-automation). -_____-
Only form of jobs that *is repetitive, menial and dangerous* that humans do not like it, can be automated. Except some form of jobs that humans want to involve either risky, adventurous activities or both, *can be synergized* [working together] with automation to improve the safety and reliability, such as "truckers"--drivers that ride in a trucks or lorries to carry goods.
Yes even Artists, and musicians. There are quite a few youtubes on machine musicians and they sound very good.
I think robotic restaurants, if implemented similarly to Creator, could really make a positive impact in the lives of employees. I'd never thought of the 'fresher food' angle, but that's a key strong point for these machines. You could spend more money on employees and on ingredients while still keeping overall menu prices down. You could ensure quality and consistency (so long as the robots are properly cleaned) while still taking care of your staff.
One more benefit is that some workers who find themselves intrigued by the inner workings of these robots could take training courses and become in-house or on-call repair technicians (likely making more money than before) to keep these robotic operations running smoothly! Not everyone will benefit from this point, but having 1-2 repair staff per restaurant would still be quite helpful overall.
Uh oh... it’s happening... the machines are preparing for the singularity!
Where the cost of living is high = robot restaurants. Where the cost of living is low = Alice's Restaurant.
Who thinks that if they couldn't have a team of efficient people who drive around to all the locations just refilling these machines and drop the price down to $4.50 that the company wouldn't do it?
Also, flipping burgers doesn't seem to be that appealing of a job (not that anyone is actually flipping the burgers with this machine around). It's hot, you stand on your feet all day, grease in your face, it's also kinda dangerous. Why do we aspire to this?
Do we aspire to give kids jobs to sow together our Nikes or do we rejoice when kids can be replaced with laser suture machines that are faster and more accurate? Let's get rid of these terrible jobs, get everyone a livable basic income and let everyone spend 100% of their time pursing their dreams.
Keep dreaming Nancy Pelosi. UBI is for losers who don't want to work.
Where the hell are you going to work when all the jobs are being done by robots?
The point is that we won't need to work. I know it's hard to imagine but, what if we all just did what we wanted? What if we only worked at things we found rewarding on their own and didn't work jobs we hate to pay rent. At that point why live in a crowded city? Why not just find some like minded friends and start re-vitalizing a block of Detroit? Why not grow vegetables and do woodworking in a commune. You could play videogames full time. You could just join 3 bands and tour coffeeshops around the nation. You could bike to every state and try to write the great American novel. The sky is the limit.
Read a bit more history and see how communism has never worked because, guess what kiddo, the human is an inherently selfish and greedy species. Nature as a whole is selfish and greedy. Communism never works. UBI will onl rekt society, check out what results UBI had in Oakland, Canada, Finland. They decided to stop the programs when they saw they are utter failures.
You might be well intentioned, but you are extremely naive. And if you think you have a special job that will not be outsourced soon, you're in for a rude awakening in 15-20 years at most.
Robots will create an even bigger divide between the 1% (which realistically is probably the 1% of the 1% of the 1%) and the rest of the peasants, and there are only 2 goals one should aspire to:
1. Protest and make sure robots never take jobs
2. Become insanely rich so you are the 1% of the 1% of the 1% (I'm working on the latter)
Health codes with require at least one person be there for cleanliness, fire safety, and CPR. Some place require 2 people after certain hours. That will be it
I like show she says no one touches the burger but you when it clearly shows the guy loading the machine with bread and The other guy cutting the tomatoes 😂
Won't take away jobs yet your main purpose of the robot is to save on labour cost which is usually the highest income statement item in a restaurant. By saving on labour you are essentially eliminating the labour market. Oh because "restaurants find struggle and people dont want to travel too far" is also an excuse. People who need a job and poor will travel farther to get a job. Raising minimum wages are costly to to the restuarant, yet another argument about reducing labour. All their key points are against labour and yet it says it doesn't impact labour force. It highly contradicts.
Also its false advertising that robot makes fresher food......how fresh the food is depends on how long it stays in storage when the supplier delivers. Subway also has fresh food when you see the person behind the counter cutting cucumbers. Just because a robot is there, doesn't automatically means fresh. Its all bullshit advertising.
Nothing but false and misleading advertising.
Aoru these are very good points.
Chill Spongebob, you can still clean the robots
Kid: Someday I am gonna be a chef.
Machine: I am gonna help you.
Make more video of robots and AI !!! Great video btw 👍👍
I like how she said “right now” about taking jobs away.
Great video.
Lets see what Gordon thinks
Yay ! Damn early. And...... an awesome video The Verge ! 😙☺
She starts out as a food expert then instantly becomes my doctor and now she’s a realtor????
I’ve been exposed to so much robotics and automation the past five years in restaurants and grocery stores it’s looks silly seeing a place with a lot of workers now.
The choice of making money a thing in the first place instead of just sharing is starting to take a toll on humanity
Bull. The future is one job maintaining the machines.
Robot: What is my purpose?
Manager: You make all the food for us and give it to us.
Robot: Oh my god!.
Make US food!? OOPS, no, make food FOR us!!!
Here's your $15 an hour. Also half of you are fired. and it will never get the order wrong!
A robot will always be cheaper than a human. No matter what the pay rate. The guy that runs Carl Jr's, has been publically in favor of automation in restaurants for longer than the debate over the $15 minimum wage has existed. And in a big expensive city (New York, San Francisco, etc..) people are already getting close to $15 minimum wage. The issue never was minimum wage. It's always been about maximizing profits.
All you Mc D's & Burger King employees wanting $22 hr watch out...
Ellen Fort.. needs to understand that all good things in this world are made by hands....
A human made the robot, so that is correct.
"this machine is more efficient so we can spend more on ingredients"
The machine cost money to buy, it is somehow saving money - why - because it doesn't have the labour costs of people. Not exactly difficult maths.
I love technology but this is something that needs to be addressed. Watch Humans Need Not Apply by CGP Grey.
MAKE Burgers Great Again
They will absolutely take your jobs, the question is what will replace that work. As someone who worked in the service industry, I can tell you it’s by no means a fulfilling experience and I’m happy to cede that work to our future robot overlords. The real issue is policy dealing with labour markets and whether they lead to better or worse quality of life for the people displaced by automation.
lol it won't take your job... lies
In Japan, many years behind they have superior technology to prepare automated food, but this is an American company and located in San Francisco, and it's a startup, that's why there is a lot of attention but is not a big deal.
seems like you people are making lame excuses not to blame the businessmen for unemployment and glorifying robots.
It's just a different equilibrium approaching. Nobody owes excuses, there is no catastrophe happening, and in that sense the excuses may be considered "lame", yes.
Do you, still to this day, assign blame for unemployed horse drivers, to businessmen glorifying steam engines and automobiles?
i am not responsible to answer some one who glorifies irresponsibility like you. if you think that way then you are a low life and sell out. you are supporting the elimination of your future.
Hi Shahrier Nabil, What makes you think they are people?
good point bro
Shahrier Nabil Avoiding questions and insulting people isn’t a good way to argue for your opinion.
Nice 1st generation Fast Food Production Machine.
The whole notion that robots are not a short term threat to ‘taking your job’ as a food worker is ridiculous. Talk to executives in the call center business. AI is awesome but also the biggest threat to capitalism.
Watch the video again. People do touch the food. There was a guy who put the buns in the tube or cylinder. There was another guy who took out the tomato cores with a knife. Another employee was preparing salad and pouring dressing on it. So people do touch the food, but probably fewer workers get to touch it than in regular fast food joints. The price for burgers made by robots is lower so more affordable. Wonder if you get to choose your burger from a computer like at McDonald's?
I can imagine how tech can add value to outlets:
1. Faster customer purchase transaction.
Imagine customers coming in to the shop, if shops still stand in the future, to purchase a service, products, or both (aka restaurants). Why have we adopted cash registers, and shifted from those tape receipt models to LCD displays? Quicker and hopefully less hassle transaction.
Tech would shift staff-handled cash transactions to more digital, quick scan and pass methods. Staff can handle other things as shown in this video; stock handling, customer support (real service), and so on.
Even better, customers handle all their purchases online, which allows outlets to be more logistic-centered, handle product and service distribution, lowering the threshold for employment (aka skill).
2. Quality control.
Imagine food prepared by excellent chefs, who also have had a double degree in food science. Something like that. Chefs can still keep culinary as a fine art, now bolstered by the high-tech preservation and handling of ingredients (less kitchen staff and accidents). Or skills can be brought directly to the home, especially when it is needed; old folks or children with particular needs, special care, etc.
Sure, it will be expensive to own such equipment, but what if they are managed the same way copymachines were? A single company dealing with maintenance in such machines in one area, which adds jobs.
3. Better marketing.
I had this vision of new-age VR/AR marketing technology, downloaded right into your phone. Sure, marketing today is highly intrusive, but what about added-value marketing? Eg. Add loyalty bonuses to customers' purchasing experiences for their lifestyle, rather than just profit-focused marketing drives.
Marketing will be more functional, which encourages demand-driven sales rather than bulk production (no more mass production of sizes when your sales are driven by customer provided sales data). Given point 1, stores may be replaced with affiliated distribution chains, where you become the best distribution link to your local market area (find your nearest distributor).
Unless tech can manufacture booze-swigging, cigar puffing Benders, they can not replace interpersonal marketing experiences, no matter how good AI can replicate us, unless we let them (then you'll have a different problem to worry about)
I want to at least get to try this in Atlanta. I don't want to think of it stealing jobs but I definitely want to see it in action!
This is what $15 an hour gets you!!!