How Food-Bots Are Changing How We Eat | Robots & Us | WIRED

Artificial intelligence and advanced automation are everywhere including our farm fields and kitchens. How will robots change the way we grow, harvest and cook our food?


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How Food-Bots Are Changing How We Eat | Robots & Us | WIRED

[rhapsodise]

When it comes to food preparation, I trust robots more than I do humans.

[funny-video-YouTube-channel]

Robots that cook the food are more hygienic than people. That's one superior advantage in food processing.

[jackmorris]

Those people working at the pizza place sure look happy... Such an inherently human task, slicing cheese and arranging pepperoni. Very fulfilling.

[randomhkkid]

The hope is that the workers it displaces will be moved to higher skilled jobs where productivity is increased. The reality is that this won't happen to many of these workers, at least not until we have UBI and our laws change.

[DJAlexParker]

they are saying that putting food in an oven is dangerous, they simply have to place it on the conveyer and not put their hand inside the oven

[GamerbyDesign]

"to give people better more satisfying jobs?" LOL those workers at 2:38 sure do look satisfied with their better jobs.

[joshuaspall]

that last guy definitely knows he's being replaced

[stevenm]

That robot arm that puts the pizza in the oven is totally un-necessary.

[joeblack]

There are two forces at work. Automated mass production, and consumerism. Mass production is only useful if your intent is to sell (or alternatively give away) lots and lots of the product.

The issue is much more complex than just saying robots will put everybody out of work - Somebody still has to buy the goods. So... We'll have to see how it evolves, but it's not just going to be rampant automation, and mass layoffs all the way. I expect a much more organic transition to whatever is coming.

[cmdcreativity]

I agree that automation is great for repetitive, high volume tasks while humans are great at creative tasks.

[Sacto]

Actually, modern mechanization have already cut the number of workers needed on a farm--and this is before robots. It used to take a large army of farm workers to harvest a large field of vegetables, but now it requires a lot less.

[SegaMario]

Anywhere I can find more footage of the machinery at 2:50?

[snake]

This will deny a lot of people from their jobs, not saying automation is bad but what that female said was just straight out dumb. People who do these "boring" jobs don't do them for fun they do it to put food on table and roof over the head for themselves and their family.
What I wanted to hear in this video was a "solution" of what will happen to those people? They don't have education, government wont pay for them to go back to school and its not like they are all mentally capable to do so in first place.

[Crmsnraider]

More people should watch this; start understanding were getting pushed into more STEM fields through our advancement in techs we need to keep up or we fall.

They shouldn’t lie to people about the goal isn’t using robots to replace workers. That’s literally the point of a robot!

[Zekurity]

So you're saying my pizza wasn't purely made by hands, instead with robot hands? :o, how much I give a sh't.

[PaleBlueDott]

"We humans are an adaptable species"

-Carl Sagan

[crimsama]

here's the thing, if the robots don't replace her workers, they'll replace her competition's workers and they'll lower the prices till she cant compete, then once she's gone they'll just go right back up.

[aaronlair]

I wonder how many of the intellectuals in the video actually have had their own business because it shows. Government forces more drastic change in the market that always the worker pays the price. A business has to be able to function. Automation isn't the enemy nor is the business for the most part. Small businesses are usually more ethical than large, but small businesses are more sensitive to market change than a large one.

[someguy]

"At Zume Pizza, humans and robots won't work together for much longer..."