{"id":12653,"date":"2014-12-16T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12653"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:03:15","slug":"robot-serves-up-360-hamburgers-per-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/robot-serves-up-360-hamburgers-per-hour","title":{"rendered":"Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: <a title=\"Posts by Peter Murray\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/pmurray\/\" rel=\"author\">Peter Murray<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: <strong>To read more about how workers will be affected by automation technology, check out Hub\u2019s follow up post <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/08\/10\/burger-robot-poised-to-disrupt-fast-food-industry\/\">Burger Robot Poised to Disrupt Fast Food Industry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No longer will they say, \u201cHe\u2019s going to end up flipping burgers.\u201d Because now, robots are <a href=\"http:\/\/shhome.wpengine.com\/2012\/08\/14\/interview-federico-pistono-author-of-robots-will-steal-your-job-but-thats-ok\/\" target=\"_blank\">taking even these ignobly esteemed jobs<\/a>. Alpha machine from <a href=\"http:\/\/momentummachines.com\/#product\" target=\"_blank\">Momentum Machines<\/a> cooks up a tasty burger with all the fixins. And it does it with such quality and efficiency it\u2019ll produce \u201cgourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a conveyor belt-type system the burgers are freshly ground, shaped and grilled to the customer\u2019s liking. And only when the burger\u2019s finished cooking does Alpha slice the tomatoes and pickles and place them on the burger as fresh as can be. Finally, the machine wraps the burger up for serving.<\/p>\n<p>And while you fret over how many people you invited to the barbecue, Alpha churns out a painless 360 hamburgers per hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2013\/01\/22\/robot-serves-up-340-hamburgers-per-hour\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written By: Peter Murray \u2014 Singularity Hub UPDATE: To read more about how workers will be affected by automation technology, check out Hub\u2019s follow up post Burger Robot Poised to Disrupt Fast Food Industry No longer will they say, \u201cHe\u2019s going to end up flipping burgers.\u201d Because now, robots are taking even these ignobly esteemed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1470,39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64857,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12653\/revisions\/64857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}