Monday, January 13, 2014

Meet "Smart Restaurant": The Minimum-Wage Crushing, Burger-Flipping Robot

Meet "Smart Restaurant": The Minimum-Wage Crushing, Burger-Flipping Robot - zerohedge.com

Excerpt from this article:

"With a seemingly endless line of talking-heads willing to ignore essentially every study that has been undertaken with regard the effects of raising the minimum-wage...we thought the following burger-flipping robot was a perfect example of unintended consequences for the fast food industry's workers... [a] machine which is capable of making ~360 'customized' gourmet burgers per hour without the aid of a human."
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