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I've read that single fast food locations, here and there, have been using robots to prepare food (a recent example). However, it's puzzling to me how this has not reached scale decades ago already.

For an initial high quality robot, the set up costs might be relatively high (design, materials etc.), but if you consider how much money is spent on human food preparers, the breakeven point should be reached relatively soon - even considering the ironing out of initial defects and quality considerations. The large chains, especially, should be incentivized to do so, given their economies of scale.

I'm trying to play devil's advocate, but I can't come up with any reason why most of the fast food preparation today isn't automated. Maybe you need high skill labor to fix the machines, but a large chain could iron out the most common issues very quickly and then have a regional repairperson on call when "rare events" occur.



Submitted September 16, 2018 at 06:36PM by donald_duck223 https://ift.tt/2D40FNB

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