Robot restaurants won’t take your job and food will be better
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2018
- Robot restaurants are popping up all over downtown San Francisco, as a futuristic option for people to grab fast food for cheap. The latest example is Creator, a robotic restaurant that specializes in making gourmet hamburgers with their all-in-one burger robots. We went behind-the-scenes of their appointment-only smart kitchen to learn more about how robots could be the future of food in urban cities.
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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!😁
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...
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”
„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
"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.
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...
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.
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!
I just love how the owner eats from his own restaurant and enjoys the food greatly. That's how every owner should be!
SpongeBob will be so mad about this.
@@cheemiis he is not fired, he challenge the robot.
In 2040 :“handmade" burger $690
Iphone 25 $45990
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.
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.
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..
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.
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...
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.
"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!
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.
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.
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.
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
"Everything you're eating on the burger has been touched by multiple people"
Damn those people ....
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?
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...
"Food Expert" Coworker: Its the freshess burger that has ever been made!
Gordon Ramsay: Hold my apron
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.
Video synopsis: SF is expensive. Low wage workers can't afford it. Robots could potentially replace low wage workers as shown here. This is not a bad thing. (Also, cooks touching your food while making it, is now bad. Next: Maglev-microwave cooking).
Don't forget, people making 30k/year aren't low-wage workers.
@@user-zu1ix3yq2w In San Francisco, they are. SF has the highest costs of living in the nation.
IIRC, in NYC the poverty line is defined around 25K/year, so I wouldn't be surprised if SF considered 30K "low-wage"
Yeah let’s get rid of the low wage workers. I’m sure they’re qualified for higher paid jobs. Nothing bad here folks, aside from an increase in the unemployed filling the Bay Area streets with more excrement.
Tf? Lol
While it's hilarious they are trying to play off like this creates jobs now, the internet took millions of jobs and created millions more, same will happen here. It is true that some will be left in the dust, others will get out of the dust, programmers were unemployed nerds like Jobs and Gates with nothing to do at one point.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Chum bucket is triggered.
You had me at 'no one touches my burger'!
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.
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
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
the amount of time a person spends cleaning that machine adds up to a single person just makin the damn burger
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.
Unless they add the option, the robot chef doesn’t spit on your burger - hurray 🙄
Great video.
"My coworkers had two distinct reactions about robots making their food: One *smile* and tHe oThEr *disgust*"
Would love to see this tech spread to fast food across the country and other restaurants. Sure some stuff should be handled by people but this makes it much nicer and faster and cheaper for all plus there is still people prepping the ingrediants so that is still part of the job while the assembly itself is being done by the machines
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).
its a 50/50. cause that robot is gonna require technical support form en engineer every now and then, witch i garantee is more expensive than a waiter or a chef. also the machine itself is pretty darn expensive, and your electricity bill will rise quite a bit. + i cant thank the chef for the good food no more. That's no good. theese robots are for Mcdonalds and burger king, but not resturants.
Look farther down the road. That may be the case now... what about 10 years from now?
If reaches scale the cost of the Bot will drop through the floor.
If more Bot Engineers are needed, Trade-Schools will open programs and train more. When I first got into IT it was a guaranteed good income. Now kids come out of high school with IT Certs and starting wage is $35k/yr.
So 10 years from now, it hits scale, and the bot costs half. 15 years from now Trade Schools catch up and Bot Maintenance dudes start at $35k/yr... OH! 20 years from now, they develop a Bot-Maintenance bot that can handle routine maintenance and 90% of the most common repairs/issues.
But this view is just based on my experience... I could be wrong?
And 100 years from now, robot (Skynet) develop self-awareness and thinking why do we have to take care those lazy humans and kill us all. LOL
No business would approve a replacement that would be more expensive in the long run... all costs combined. So don't worry, by the time fast food chains adopt it, it WILL be cheaper than the alternative of using chefs. And the people who won't adapt it, would mostly be high end diners that can justify serving more expensive food.
And they are already doing that but in another form, McDonald's is installing self checkouts in every single place right now, same KFC, they already started cutting down the cost with the machines but they've started with front of house staff first, my local McD's have like 1 or 2 people at the checkout now, they used to have 6-7.
as someone that worked in restaurants throughout high school and college, yeah machines will be in every restaurant to an extent. There are just so many jobs in any type of kitchen that are so robotic that it makes sense to automate them. Grill and Fryers are the first that come to mind where every single restaurant would want to automate them. Also every franchise (99,chilis, texas roadhouse, ect.) would definitely hop on board, that way they can make sure all there food tastes exactly the same across the country. While more higher end restaurants will probably tend to stay away from them, I can still see them using them for prep work.
This alien eating burger upside down
We all ready got burger flipping and robot fryer, now robot are taking jobs
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
What a great video, and congrats on 2M subscribers!
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.
Had this reporter even gone to school? She said, "...it takes 5 minutes to make a burger and with 2 machines they can make 130 burgers an hour." I can't get that to add up. Her word problem and answer is this: There is 60 minutes in an hour. It takes 5 minutes to make one burger. One machine can then make 65 burgers an hour. (I know she said 2 machines but I'm just doing one now.) I rewinded and listened to it several times to make sure I heard correctly. I did. Her math is so far off it's amazing she passed math class. I dropped out of school. I never finished High School or went to college and I know that what she said is impossible. Again. It takes one machine 5 minutes to make one burger. 60 minutes in an hour then one machine can only make 12 burgers an hour. With 2 machines that is then 24 burgers an hour. Not 130 as she said. For both machines to make a total of 130 burgers per hour which is 65 per machine, then each machine would need to make each burger in 55 seconds not 5 minutes.
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
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.
The choice of making money a thing in the first place instead of just sharing is starting to take a toll on humanity
1990:"there will be flying cars in the future"
The future: robots that make burgers
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my wife left me for a robot... it's happening boiz
yea those sybians are hard to compete with eh? xD
Machine parts still need to be washed daily, that's a lot of labor involved.
Lets see what Gordon thinks
Why are people freaking out about this? Every sector goes through this. It used to take 3-5 people to cut down and move a tree. Now it takes 1 person to do all that. Any kind of manufacturing assembly or even in a office environment technology impacts the number of employees. Airplanes needed a pilot, a copilot, a flight engineer and a what I think it was called a tracer. But now we’re closer to airplanes with no pilot.
Yay ! Damn early. And...... an awesome video The Verge ! 😙☺
Smh someone didnt play Detroit became human
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.
Great video, love it! Thanks.
Congrats for 2M subscribers The Verge !!
Thank you! Couldn't have done it without you.
The Verge thanks for replying ! Couldn't have loved youtube without y'all!
What's all this about walking blocks? Bring on the affordable home robots, or at least robot delivery.
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.
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!!!
What if someone ordered medium rare? Or extra ketchup? Or no buns?
those screens have the option i went to this retaurant
The next generation hotel is having good future in robotics and AI and nice video verge.....😊😊
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Now think about this while you have humans touching your food; now you have robots touching your food.
Where the cost of living is high = robot restaurants. Where the cost of living is low = Alice's Restaurant.
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"
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
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!
I like how she said “right now” about taking jobs away.
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
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This looks pretty cool. I'd love to try that burger! Bring it to LA!
~Trav
Finally. Someone without attitude and my order is always right!
Human will replace by Robot.Then organic food will be in menu.
How do they clean those things??
I imagine bacteria growing in all those
internal nooks and crannies. At least humans can wash their hands......lol
sometimes :D
If you worry about that, I guess you never ever eat any processed food? Any food that comes out of factories is produced by way bigger and more complex machines. I’d imagine this machine is maintained better than those factory assembly machines.
That is correct! I don't eat processed food.
Machines producing processed food in factories have compliance standards and inspections and have built in systems ans standard practices to sanitize them. Even something as basic as trucks with milk tankers have separate specifications for the purpose of making them easy to disinfect. If there is an unsanitary part of the process, there will be entire batches of processed food that will be contaminated and cost the company millions in expensive recalls, or even law-suits. The process of keeping everything disinfected in food production is well-developed. Whether or not they can be applied easily to a small scale machine like this is the big question.
I imagine its designed to self clean/sanitize
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 😂
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.
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.
I think it's great.
One more step in the right direction for that terminator apocalypse.
More like Robotaissance
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.
I want a mini version of that machine in my kitchen at home! 😋
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.
They better take our jobs! That's why we invented them. That's what theyve been doing for years in factories and mines.
The problem is that the wages the robots aren't getting paid are also not going back into the system. The answer is universal basic income. Why are we slaving our lives away when the robots do it willingly? Scarcity is a myth perpetuated by ignorance and power structures and it is killing us slowly.
Maybe I watched too much Star Trek as a kid... but rather than a Universal Basic income, I say do away with money. Money represents trade of skills and time. With 90% unemployment what would money represent?
Whuruuk TheOrk the top 10%? Of engeneers, inventors, CEO s
I couldn’t help but think this the entire time I was watching the video
You don't get it. People are inherently competitive. They won't be happy if they can't have an opportunity to get more than what everyone around earns.
UBI is for losers who want a hand out. Like Bezos who can't send a package without getting a $1.50 per from the Government.
Kid: Someday I am gonna be a chef.
Machine: I am gonna help you.
Gordon Ramsey: Now that’s what I call a burger.
20 computers to make a burger? Seems excessive
With the cost of electricity on the rise, these employers are going to be raising the price of their food, not lowering it LMAO
Things Happen Do you know how much electricity a computer even uses?
In the long run business owners wouldn't buy those robots if they couldn't save some money by employing less people. So at some point this whole development inevitably will lead to much fewer jobs and richer business owners.
But all this won't be a problem AS LONG we start taxing thos robots and that money will flow directly into a universal basic income.
It's not a question if but just when (neraly!) every single job could be done by a machine. That would be a utopia if everyone can profit from that and a dystopia if only the business owners will profit from that and the rest of the world will live in poverty. And it's imposible to get the first option without a universal basic income.
But this situation won't just pop up at some day. It's a long development. So going from no universal basic income at all to a full universal basic income for everyone also can't be a change from one day to another. We have to start implementing some sort of a universal basic income today.
For exapmple here in germany even today there are fewer open jobs than people who are looking for those jobs. So if some of them won't get a job it's not their fault.
Thank you! Nice to see someone that gets it! Where will we be when unemployment is 90%! i'm not saying we should be Protectionist and protect people's jobs... I lean towards what I call Techno-Communism. 90% of everything is produced by bots and you simply get what you need. Do away with money, because if there are no jobs, nobody has any.
Maybe I watched too much Star Trek as a kid.
While i too belief that UBI will eventually be unavoidable, there are a few issues with.
For example, how do you prevent Humanity from just sitting on their Couch and collecting UBI? Humans are complacent beeings after all and will always choose the method that requires the least amount of effort.
So, i think some form of mandatory Activity should be required in order to collect UBI, that doesn't have to be Work, mind you, Learning a Skill like a Language, beeing part of a sports club or even engaging in Arts like Writing or Painting, anything that prevents the body and brain from just rotting.
That may sound patronising, but i feel this is the only way for Humanity to thrive in a fully automated society
While were at it we should set up a euthanasia program for the unproductive, sick and anyone over 55. Life becomes a lot safer when cars drive themselves and manual labor is done by machines. We need to get ahead of overpopulation now and not when it is too late!
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At least in the final state where nearly every single job is done by a machine, it doesn't matter if most people are just sitting around doing nothing. At least for the economy. There's nothing to do so why should anyone do anything.
Of course, there are still a few jobs where someone has to supervise the machines. If someone does that job, that person should be paid really good. Otherwise, no one would do that job because there is no reason to do so. But just like you can't be president for more than 8 years, there also should be a maximum time to do this job because it comes with a lot of power and a lot of wealth.
So sitting around doing nothing isn't a problem for the economy in that state. What about the consequences for individual people? Will their bodies, brains and our culture start rotting?
No, at least that problem won't be bigger than it's already right now. Right now people are making music, painting pictures, learning languages, doing sports even if nobody is forcing them to. That will be even better if they have more time for all that stuff.
And if someone today has a boring job (that still has to be done by someone) and comes home, sits down on the couch and just watches TV, not much will change for them when they can watch TV all day long.
If someone has a job that is actually fun and challenging, that person has chosen that job for a good reason and would probably also do something challenging when there is a UBI.
In conclusion: Your job is not what stops your body and brain from rotting. It's your mindset. And if someone would let his brain and body rot with a UBI, the same person is probably already doing it right now.
Instead of taxing the robots, why not have a exponentially increasing income tax rate that effectively caps income?
If you press the meat for a burger, it gets tough. Best burger you can make is to hold your hand under a meat grinder, throw a new york strip in the grinder, take the freshly ground meat and lightly pat it down, season the burger, then grill it over a very hot fire.
That robot might make a burger techies love, but it won't be either good or real.
P.S. this is an idea from the 1950s, you only imagine to do it better than the automats.
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.