Inside China's new robotic restaurant in Guangzhou

[beijingwalker]

Inside China's new robotic restaurant in Guangzhou

 

[Philosopher]

Fast food giants like McDonalds et cetra must be giving serious thoughts to these sorts of technology. The biggest cost to a business generally is staff wages. If you can reduce that then you can raise profit margin by a decent amount. However, this does raise a certain moral dilemma. So many people these days (especially youngsters) apply to places like fast food joints and earn a living there. Many of these people have no major qualifications to speak off. You would have to wonder how this arrival of robotics will change their dynamics. Businesses are not charities and I doubt they care about such moral dilemmas. The good news however is, from what is apparent, the arrival of such technologies in everyday business is happening at a slow enough rate to give people the time to reassess their current occupations.

 

[UKBengali]

Yep, progress again in action.

 

[ohmrlobalobayeh]

Robot chefs cook food in China's restaurant

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[Crusher]

These look to me simple automatically controlled devices rather than smart robots, no different than automatic washing machines which are in use in western countries for decades.

 

[beijingwalker]

These look to me simple automatically controlled devices rather than smart robots, no different than automatic washing machines which are in use in western countries for decades.

This one?

 

[Viet]

Inside China's new robotic restaurant in Guangzhou

That’s food in terrible form.
Machine made foods. How can you enjoy foods in factories?
Singapore hawker foods are best. I go every time there when in the country.

 

[xuxu1457]

Amazing and crazy, I think McDonald's needs them, but real cooking needs people.

 

[beijingwalker]

AI and robots will cause mass unemployment in the coming decades, countries with huge populations must brace for it.

 

[Nan Yang]

AI and robots will cause mass unemployment in the coming decades, countries with huge populations must brace for it.

Once big data is in place, AI will actually replace many white collar jobs.
Example getting a loan, insurance, stock analyst etc can be replaced easier.
Blue collar jobs is actually harder to replace as it requires a lot of manipulation of the hand and arm but even some jobs like truck driver cab drivers are already being replaced.

United States 70 plus old politicians are still debating old issues. Jobs will not come back to United States. It will be replaced by automation and AI.
Only a Chinese politician Andrew Yang can save America. But he is kicked out already.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Fast food giants like McDonalds et cetra must be giving serious thoughts to these sorts of technology. The biggest cost to a business generally is staff wages. If you can reduce that then you can raise profit margin by a decent amount. However, this does raise a certain moral dilemma. So many people these days (especially youngsters) apply to places like fast food joints and earn a living there. Many of these people have no major qualifications to speak off. You would have to wonder how this arrival of robotics will change their dynamics. Businesses are not charities and I doubt they care about such moral dilemmas. The good news however is, from what is apparent, the arrival of such technologies in everyday business is happening at a slow enough rate to give people the time to reassess their current occupations.

 

[Philosopher]

Thank you for the interesting video. One thing I missed in my initial post is that perhaps the employers would be reluctant to go for these technologies at the moment. Why? well if you're McDonalds, do you want to be responsible for creating sudden considerable unemployment by replacing people with robots? Many businesses get decent tax reductions etc if they're employing large numbers of people. But they could still do this if they employ this strategy in a slow fashion rather than abruptly. But I have not really looked in to it to get a feel for what the big fast food chains think about these robotic food dispensers.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Thank you for the interesting video. One thing I missed in my initial post is that perhaps the employers would be reluctant to go for these technologies at the moment. Why? well if you're McDonalds, do you want to be responsible for creating sudden considerable unemployment by replacing people with robots? Many businesses get decent tax reductions etc if they're employing large numbers of people. But they could still do this if they employ this strategy in a slow fashion rather than abruptly. But I have not really looked in to it to get a feel for what the big fast food chains think about these robotic food dispensers.

As Steve Jobs once said famously:
If You Don’t Cannibalize Yourself, Someone Else Will

Kodak developed the digital camera but didn't move forward with it because they didn't want to rock the cushy large marketshare in camera film they had...as a result other companies did leaving them with zero as film went the way of cassette and record players.

If McDonald's doesn't do it someone else will...leaving them with nothing.

 

[Philosopher]

As Steve Jobs once said famously:
If You Don’t Cannibalize Yourself, Someone Else Will

Kodak developed the digital camera but didn't move forward with it because they didn't want to rock the cushy large marketshare in cameras they had...as a result other companies did leaving them with zero.

If McDonald's doesn't do it someone else will...leaving them with nothing.

It's definitely something that fast food chains will do eventually. I mean as far as dispensing is concerned, robots will do a much more efficient and consistent job than humans. I am sure their businesses planners have already designed a road map for achieving this. This is one of the areas where inevitability of a certain technology is obvious. Like you said, if they do not go ahead with it, it's business suicide.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

It's definitely something that fast food chains will do eventually. I mean as far as dispensing is concerned, robots will do a much more efficient and consistent job than humans. I am sure their businesses planners have already designed a road map for achieving this. This is one of the areas where inevitability of a certain technology is obvious, like you said, if they do not go ahead with it, it's business suicide.

There are multiple robotic restaurants around. This one is near my work and uses the same cooking principle as the OP ( Sautéing)