McDonald's Burger Cooking Custom LEGO Machine vs. Man | Robot vs. Worker

Can a worker be beat by a roboticist's machine made of bricks?

With the robot takeover as one of man's biggest fears, a McDonald's worker and I decide to demonstrate the battle in a friendly competition between man and machine.

This McDonald's hamburger robot assembles and cooks burgers to order at the command of a human tapping a touchscreen. With numerous burger possibilities, customers pay by card a price determined by their Consequently, a burger symphony assembles the burger just like a real human.

At AstonishingStudios, we aim to entertain and educate curious minds through carefully designed custom creations with LEGO® pieces. From candy machines to food makers, each video will leave you hungrier and more intelligent than the last.

As a LEGO® fanatic and vending machine enthusiast, Marcel, the founder of Astonishing Studios, stumbled across a YouTube video that changed his life: a LEGO Candy Machine. After scrutinizing every similar creation on YouTube and building his own, he decided to share his work online. What began as a curiosity evolved into a full time venture, now ranking as the most popular LEGO® food channel and among the top focused on LEGO® bricks in general.

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[_ghost.house_]

i’m just gonna say this now, as a mcdonald’s worker. best case scenario, on the grills, a quarter pounder is timed to be down for about 60 seconds. in that time, we toast the buns, and assemble everything on top, so at most, actually making the sandwich only takes about a minute, just because that’s how long it takes for the meat to cook, as quarter pounders are made to order. everything else is made or order upon special requests, or we take it from a tray (i.e, regular burgers, mcchicken, nuggets, etc, ). all the extra time it takes to get to you is the people up front actually putting everything else together, not us in the back.

[headsman]

A TABLESPOON OF EACH? "Would like some burger with your sauce sir?"

[ElectryDragonite]

Next level video production. On top of that the machine is the best one you've ever made.

[OneTwoFive]

People: “don’t worry, McDonalds workers won’t get replaced any time soon”

This guy which made an automated burger cooker out of lego bricks:

[DavidSeymourOfficial]

i dont care who its from just save me one pls

[camhesse]

FYI, I’m pretty sure ur burger was already cooked by the time you got there when you bought one AT McDonald. So that minute and a half does not include cooking the quarter pounder from scratch

[WARREN_G_III_Official]

This contest doesn't seem fair. The machine cooked the buns as well as the meat, but the McDonald's worker left the bread cold.

[nekolette.]

McDonalds should hire this guy to build an ice cream machine that isn't broken all the time.

[dratrav]

i mean this one was made by one dude with a toaster and legos lmao, imagine a team of engineers with a basically unlimited amount of money-making one

[Sempermac]

He didn’t toast the buns. Auto win for lego machine.

[soupWRLD]

the fact that you had to add time to his means he already won lol. also, his skillet would have already been hot and the cheese isn’t wrapped individually. the robot cuts corners by having the burger already cooked. if anything, you should have added time to the robot.

[lanafair]

To people who think his burger was pre-made, it takes 50 seconds to grill the patty, during which the entire bun can be toasted and assembled AND then the worker still has plenty of time to do other things before the patty is ready and the classic hamburger is wrapped up and ready to serve so yeah, it is possible to get a fresh burger within the amount of time it took him to drive from ordering station to getting the order

[AstonishingStudios]

1) I will adopt your criticisms for future man vs. machine videos
2) My video editor makes my lips looks rosy; it is not lipstick

[anakinweaver]

The McDonald's worker looks like he moves slow but makes it in a minute

[jamesshaw]

“If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean” - I thought that was just something one of the shift leaders made up at McDonald’s when I worked there haha and that was a UK McDonald’s, didn’t realise it was an actual thing

[RobTheDudeOG]

with the last round it became clear that having each sauce come out seperately kind of bottlenecked.
having them come out all at once (if ordered of course) would save on quite a few seconds.

other than that the box dispenser also takes too much time, perhaps make a mechanism where it drops on it's bottom on the belt by sliding down a ramp rather than it's current method.

and as a last note, perhaps start making the buns first, then do the box part as this saves time on cooking somewhat.

[sezzie]

This has so many variables in it that are effecting the man score, in a restaurant the patty is most likely pre cooked, they have easy access toppings that do not have to be accessed through notichy draws and bottles with lids... the table is also extremely low which looks to be effecting the performance.

[lazwalks]

i’d like to add that your machine toasted the buns while mike didn’t. i think it’s makes a huge difference

[NipeNipe]

Really amazing! The system using the toaster where the bread comes out from the bottom is a really wonderful idea. The machine design is also wonderful, and the shape of the ketchup & mustard bottle is very cute and I like it !(^^)!

[Greenday]

Does the machine have everything requested? Yes. But handmade definitely crushes it in presentation. Also you didn't count the time you had to take it out and fold it yourself, but you counted folding and closing the box against the human.