Income Inequality

[Speaker to Animals]

Robot Moe's Southwest

Naow

You could probably keep the staff of chipotle employed, just wrapping the final burritos and taking money.

There has to be a way to automate wrapping burritos, and people can pay at kiosks.

You need like one guy to manage the system.

There would still be jobs for people who can quickly come out and repair, adjust, or update the automated systems. But those will require more training, higher skills, and therefore higher wages. And my burrito remains untouched by potentially sick or unwashed hands.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Robot Moe's Southwest

Naow

You could probably keep the staff of chipotle employed, just wrapping the final burritos and taking money.

There has to be a way to automate wrapping burritos, and people can pay at kiosks.

You need like one guy to manage the system.

There would still be jobs for people who can quickly come out and repair, adjust, or update the automated systems. But those will require more training, higher skills, and therefore higher wages. And my burrito remains untouched by potentially sick or unwashed hands.

I’m oretty confident that burrito wrapping could only be done by human hands for the foreseeable future. Just way to sloppy for a robot.

[Speaker to Animals]

It does seem like the robotics equivalent of a Turing Test, but I suspect it's not nearly as difficult to achieve as you might think. Certainly not as difficult as the Turing Test.

[jediuser598]

Can't be that hard, probably already robots do it. Look at all those frozen burritos, you can be damned sure there's not people doing all of those.

[Speaker to Animals]

Even the humans fuck it up about every five or six times I order one.

[Hastur]

This one is from 2013:



https://www.anko.com.tw/en/product/Semi ... -1500.html

[Speaker to Animals]

All the inputs to those machines are fixed and carefully measured, though. In a burrito shop, the customer can order all sorts of shit, and end up with a giant mountain of food that has to be wrapped.

The machines that wrap those nasty industrialized burritos you see in the frozen food section aren't really the same thing at all. If you can control all the inputs and you know exactly the dimensions of the food that will go into it, you can probably easily build a machine that wraps the burritos. Probably even better than the one in that video which still fucked up and didn't wrap actual burritos, but was more like an enchilada wrap.

[DBTrek]

I doubt all the cheap frozen burrito 10-packs at the grocery store were hand wrapped.

[Speaker to Animals]

I doubt all the cheap frozen burrito 10-packs at the grocery store were hand wrapped.

Sure, but the contents are all fixed. Automating it where everything is carefully measured is a lot easier than automating what happens in a burrito shop.

[Fife]