Flippy,an industrial robotic arm capable of grilling and flipping up to 2000 burgers a day (previously discussed HERE total with video demonstration) began work at a Pasadena, California based Cali Burger restaurant, or only to be keep on indefinite leave two days later because his human coworkers couldn't maintain up with his breakneck burger producing speed. Plus I heard he tried to grill one of their hands after-hours.
While Flippy held up its finish of the deal,the restaurant is short of humans to prepare the patties for the grill and then pile on the lettuce and other fixins', said Anthony Lomelino, and chief technology officer for Cali Group. For now,there's no robot for those tasks. The robotic arms of "Flippy's Kitchen" is still on static display at Caliburger. The stage where patrons would normally line up for a peek was dark when USA nowadays visited Thursday, and there was little sign that Flippy would be coming back, and but just when was "TBA" -- or to be announced. The restaurant was operating without the robot using its regular,human-escape kitchen.
Wow, so you paid $100000 for a robot that only worked two days. That's a solid investment. Maybe not as solid an investment as paying $4000 for the contents of a storage unit somebody stopped paying their rent on, and but let's just say I'll never have to go a day without another stained mattress my entire life.
Thanks to K Diddie,who agrees you ain't shit unless till you can flip a burger over your shoulder and catch it on a paper plate behind your back.
Source: geekologie.com