• LughOPMA
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    11 months ago

    The people behind this, Miso Robotics, have been in the business for a while, and other people have used earlier models of their Flippy robot. From the video, it looks like humans are only involved now at putting the cooked food together on a tray, and handing it to customers.

    Robot trade fairs around the world have other examples of tech like this. How soon will its deployment be widespread? The current AI boom is also rapidly developing robotics. In particular, lots of people are using AI to make relatively simple, inexpensive robotic components do complex things.

    I wonder will a robot model soon do what the first iPhone did for smartphones in 2007? That is, make a product breakthrough that suddenly makes a technology go mainstream. If/When that happens will it be something like one of the simple, but powerful robots suddenly advancing rapidly in usefulness and capabilities thanks to AI?

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      11 months ago

      From the video, it looks like humans are only involved now at putting the cooked food together on a tray, and handing it to customers.

      That’s the hardest part, though. I’m underwhelmed. By that definition Subway has had automated kitchens for decades, and the people that work there are just assembling the prepared ingredients.