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Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Creator's transparent burger robot doesn't grind your brisket and chuck steak into a gourmet patty until you order it. That's just one way this startup, formerly known as Momentum Machines, wants to serve the world's freshest cheeseburger for just $6. On June 27th, after eight years in development, Creator unveils its first robot restaurant before opening to the public in September. Here's how Creator's burger-cooking bot works at its 680 Folsom Street location in San Francisco. Once you order your burger style through a human concierge on a tablet, a compressed air tube pushes a baked-that-day bun into an elevator on the right. It's sawed in half by a vibrating knife before being toasted and buttered as it's lowered to conveyor belt. Sauces measured by the milliliter and spices by the gram are automatically squirted onto the bun. Whole pickles, tomatoes, onions and blocks of nice cheese get slices shaved off just a second before they're dropped on top.
Meanwhile, the robot grinds hormone-free, pasture-raised brisket and chuck steak to order. But rather than mash them all up, the strands of meat hang vertically and are lightly pressed together. They form a loose but auto-griddleable patty that's then plopped onto the bun before the whole package slides out of the machine after a total time of about five minutes. The idea is that when you bite into the burger, your teeth align with the vertical strands so instead of requiring harsh chewing it almost melts in your mouth. TechCrunch has produced a video about the company on YouTube.
Meanwhile, the robot grinds hormone-free, pasture-raised brisket and chuck steak to order. But rather than mash them all up, the strands of meat hang vertically and are lightly pressed together. They form a loose but auto-griddleable patty that's then plopped onto the bun before the whole package slides out of the machine after a total time of about five minutes. The idea is that when you bite into the burger, your teeth align with the vertical strands so instead of requiring harsh chewing it almost melts in your mouth. TechCrunch has produced a video about the company on YouTube.
If your burger requires "harsh chewing", you seriously need to start frequenting a different burger joint.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
They're charging double what In N Out charges, which doesn't freeze any of their ingredients. I guess teenagers are cheaper than robots...
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When can we expect an episode of Black Mirror that features this machine dispensing absolutely scrumptious burgers made with some unusual meats? Or has that been done already? Either way, I fully expect life to imitate art in the near future ....
A truly excellent pizza parlor is a delight unto the heavens. Treasure the sauce and the toppings!
The video is actually kind of interesting, two points from that:
It doesn't take away as many jobs as you might think, they still have a staff (someone has to keep people from smashing the machine, or clean out its greasy innards at night). They even give workers 5% of time to do something for self-improvement, like reading a book. The owner said after cooking tens of thousands of burgers he invented the machine so the workers would have less tedious and more creative things to do.
The other thought - for a fully automated system "precise" delivery of condiments is rougher than you would think. Even in the video where they could do a few runs, the robot has got some sauce on the box so that kind of shorted your exact measurements I would think (and was a bit messy).
It looked like a decent burger, would love to try.
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I'm lactose intolerant, you insensitive clod!
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Sauces measured by the milliliter and spices by the gram
How about tenth of a millimeter for sauces and milligrams for spices?
Having an excess milliliter of mayo or mustard can really ruin the balance of a burger, and of course make a mess of things.
Having an extra GRAM of spices can cause someone to cough and choke or have allergic reactions (that they normally wouldn't).
There's a Tex-Mex restaurant chain that for years and years has had a tortilla-making 'robot' the sits in their lobby and makes fresh tortillas all day long.
I remember getting MCSE training at an outfit called Ameritrain some years ago that had a 'robot' in their lobby that would fresh-grind coffee and brew it for you while you waited.
Where work right now there's a couple different designs of coffee-grinding-and-brewing 'robots', too.
There is nothing impressive or 'innovative' about this, it's jus another machine that performs one pre-programmed function: making your a gods-be-damned hamburger. The definition of 'robot' is getting about as blurred and obfuscated by assholes in marketing as they've been doing with what is and is not 'AI'.
Nothing to see here.. ..and I wouldn't even eat that shitty hamburger if you gave it to me for free.
Heh. Spoken with all the authority of someone who hasn't seen the robot in action or sampled the burgers. I need to re-read my NDA to see if I can talk about it now. I've tried the burger, the restaurant, etc. and there's plenty of innovation and cool factor around this. Most important: the quality is way above fast food burgers at a similar price point.
Time will tell. I, for one, welcome our hamburger making overlords.
Cheers!
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So you're saying that it's a boring obvious excuse for a gory murder mystery?
That's not so much a robot as an assembly line.
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And just to double-confuse people, they only accept Litecoins.
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I suspect they're spitting on your hamburger because you're calling them illiterate border crossers.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
They form a loose but auto-griddleable patty that's then plopped onto the bun before the whole package slides out of the machine
I look forward to sinking my teeth into a burger that could have been cooked, but is apparently not by default.
I have never contemplated the harshness of the chewing involved for a burger ... big ol slab of pork, yes, burger, no ...
> But rather than mash them all up, the strands of meat hang vertically and are lightly pressed together.
> They form a loose but auto-griddleable patty that's then plopped onto the bun before the whole
> package slides out of the machine after a total time of about five minutes. The idea is that when
> you bite into the burger, your teeth align with the vertical strands so instead of requiring
> harsh chewing it almost melts in your mouth.
So if I rotate the burger by 90 degrees, I'll be eating against the grain and it'll require even MORE harsh chewing? Not a problem if they can also toast an arrow into the bun to show you which way up it goes.
No tip I spit oil in your burger!
Apparently human workers get 5% of their time for 'self improvement' and it made me realise that I spend about the same amount of time writing crap on forums :(
Some hoodlums the next table over did a 51% attack on my burger.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Giving cockroaches the finger doesn't improve the sanitation of your food. That said, if one threatens to jump onto your sandwich, the computer vision system will see it 6 seconds beforehand but do nothing and alert noone due to too many false positives.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.