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And the robot will have breakdowns, downtime, and regular servicing. This will require a contractor, or a full time employee to keep it running. The same cost as many of the other workers in the line. Those people are easily replaceable, unlike the robot if something happens.
The future of fast food is automated ordering. It'll be a decade before we start seeing fully automated food lines. This is a flight of fancy at this point, and more of a novelty piece than anything. Anyone who has worked at any fast food restaurant understands, quite a bit of the process is already automated.
I think what they should do is take a class in robot repair.
Everyone knows the flakiest piece of machinery in an office is the photocopy machine.
I see tens of thousands of brand new robots and the same number of robot repair people.
It's time they get some training.
I took robotics courses in college. Pretty simple to write a program and teach it how to make and do things. Mostly we were using an automated lathe and some other equipment.
Its mainly fixing hydraulic hoses, fittings, and maintaining the work area around the robot that is needed. 9 out of 10 robot failures come from someone placing something to close to the robots predefined working path.
Sounds like a pretty cool piece of equipment. It will create jobs for skilled people to engineer and build the machines, most likely people making >$15 per hour in the first place. They will also reduce the burden of tedious, unskilled labor jobs. Sort of like replacing 10 shovels with a backhoe, or 100 people with scythes with a combine. This will reduce the cost of products and free up people for more productive effort. If your job can be replaced by a machine...you weren't worth much in the first place.
It's amazing how the right loves to stomp on the little guy.
They must have some serious self-esteem issues.
Actually, they learned how to overcome their self-esteem issues and make their lives better.
It's those demanding $15/hour for monkey work that have self-esteem issues. Thought that was pretty obvious, but I'm constantly reminded on this board that no matter how obvious something might be, those who don't want to see it, won't.
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I support them 100%!
