The fast food industry is in danger of being replaced by automation.
The flippy robot is one of the threats. The wage slave is back with its second evolution, called Flippy 2. The original Flippy was limited to burgers, but now it's a fry cook killer, deep frying delicious french fries, onion rings, and other items on its own.
The company's CEO sounded contemptuous of the human workers the bot will be replacing.
Mike Bell said in a new interview that it does it faster or more accurately than most humans do.
You could hear the man. The robot will get the job done without complaining.
The robot helpers are supposed to work with overburdened human employees. Human workers are happy to let the robot do the work.
That line of reasoning glosses over why those workers are overburdened in the first place, and doesn't give a satisfactory answer on what a robot like Flippy can do.
Flippy 2 can autonomously grab frozen ingredients out of the freezer and cook multiple meals at the same time. It sounds like the end goal is a fast food outlet with as few humans as possible.
Jack in the Box, White Castle, and Caliburger are already using Flippy 2 despite ethical questions.
Bell thinks that one day, customers will walk into a restaurant and look at a robot and say, "Hey, remember the old days when humans used to do that kind of thing?"
He said that it was coming. It's just a question of how quickly.
Musk's robot is back to back with Boston Dynamics. There is something.
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