Ignoramus24995 wrote:
On 2015-12-31, Ed Huntress wrote:
Now, about your "robot bartender." It's YOU who should look at those
Google listings, because none of them actually have replaced humans.
They're gee-whiz demonstration projects, like the hamburger assembling
robots that get Iggy excited. They aren't anybody's employment
problem. Whether they ever will be is open to speculation.

And the reason for that is that the mechanics of automation are no
longer the limiting factor in further implementation. The limiting
factor now is coordinating vast amounts of data -- control data,
monitoring data, optimizing data, ordering data -- it's a software
problem. General-subject reporters see the robots. Manufacturing
managers see the data piling up.

Do you really think that we must have people putting patties on buns
and taking orders? Come on

Food vending machines and help yourself smorgasbords and buffets
have been around a lot longer than robots. If a restaurant gets
rid of food servers it won't be with robots. A robot that performed
all the tasks of an $8/hr fast food worker is going to cost
a whole lot more than a robot to replace a $50/hr assembly line
worker that is performing some repetitive task like welding
a particular seam on an automobile body.