ADSactly Tech News - Cool New Robots That Were Made to Impress!
ADSactly Tech News: Cool New Robots That Were Made to Impress!
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The world of robotics never ceases to amaze as they are doing unexpected things and complete these tasks remarkably well.
From manufacturing to cooking to taking care of homes, we are getting closer to a point in which there will one day be a robot for almost everything!
Over the past year I've written an incredible number of articles focused on new developments in robotic technology. I'm deeply fascinated with this subject and in addition to AI and blockchain, I find robotics to be one of the most exciting fields in technology hands down.
In the process of doing research for my next tech article I usually review topics of past articles and run a list of keywords and run them through google to scan news and get a good picture of what developments have taken place in a particular field.
Sometimes I hit the jackpot and other times I'm disappointed because there's just nothing big and juicy to take a bite out of. Sometimes you win and other times it's as dull as watching a dustball roll across a dusty valley in the wild west...
There is an incredible amount of time, money and effort being placed into the field of robotics as we move into the 2020s. The things that are being done with robots would be unfathomable just a decade ago. They can walk, talk, manufacture, clean and even provide consolation in times of need.
Sometimes what I find is sensational and other times its less than extraordinary but in today's article I'd like to discuss two new robots that certainly had my attention as I tried to grasp their purposes and how they manage to complete their tasks. So without further delay let me tell you about a robot that is filling bellies in San Francisco, CA.
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There's a new restaurant called Creator which is located on the ground floor of an office building on downtown San Francisco’s Folsom Street. The restaurant is modern outfitted with beautiful wooden communal tables and high white stools. On one end of the room you can find a bookshelf full of hand-picked culinary books against the wall and modern light fixtures overhead.
But the other side of the room is where a beast of modern convenience lives. This beast consists of two large machines each the size of a small car form a 90-degree angle around a center counter. This contraption has been described as giving the whole space a retro-futurist aesthetic like something straight out a the popular cartoon of the 80s, 'The Jetsons.'
But let me delve deeper into the tech and what it's designed to do... The two machines exist between glass casings and have all the ingredients they need in cylindrical tubes, to facilitate the Creator’s burger-making robots.
It is a 14-foot device with around 350 sensors and 20 microcomputers. Its reason for existing is simple, its designed to make the freshest, locally sourced cheeseburger that $6 can get someone in America’s most expensive city.
According to the recent article published in the Verge, the author said after getting a taste of the goods they could confirm it was the best-tasting burger for the money they had ever had.
“We wanted to design a device that meets nature where it is, and not make food conform to a robot,” CEO Alex Vardakostas tells The Verge in an interview. “We didn’t want something that would make one kind of burger. We look at this like a platform for recipes, and we wanted as much culinary creativity as possible.”
We are looking at a new paradigm of robots creating and serving in food. The world's first world countries will most certainly embrace this paradigm as costs continue to soar and human labor simply can no longer compete with the quality / speed and accessibility of meals powered by robotic contraptions.
Is this a good thing? I'm not so sure. What I can predict is that there will be a premium for human prepared or food served by a human in the future as this new paradigm is unavoidable.
Developing nations will take much longer to come to this point but they will get there at some point as well.
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Creator was formerly known as Momentum Machines, but if you think about a restaurant the last thing you want to be thinking about is the robot that will be making your food!
The Creator is just one of many when it comes to automated restaurants. This new breed of restaurants mixes industry software, robotics, and artificial intelligence skills with top-tier culinary expertise.
It is said that these restaurants will only be trying to automate the portion of the restaurant experience that can be done better, faster, and be more cost efficient with machines but when have we ever stopped as a species from going one step further?
Creator has joined a list of robotic restaurant companies which include San Francisco-based quinoa bowl chain Eatsa, pizza-delivery company Zume in Mountain View and others.
But why hasn't this technology been embraced more by the masses. I have my suspicions but according to Eatsa CEO, Tim Young it is simply about positioning.
“It’s not that people are catching up with this type of model. It’s that this model is catching up with the way people and society are tending to interact with companies,” says Eatsa CEO Tim Young.
One may say that Eatsa is simply too cold, too inhuman to accompany such an important and human function like eating a meal.
It is important to note that the Eatsa experience has no use for human beings or at least it doesn't present the involvement of human beings whatsoever as customers order from an iPad, food is prepared partially by automated machines and partially by humans in the kitchen before being placed into mechanized cubbies a customer opens with the tap of a finger on the glass.
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But enough about food and the removal of the human element from it specifically. I'd like to turn your attention to another robot that is turning heads and feeding plants!
There's a new robot named Hexa that can move a plant in and out of shade and stomps when it needs watering.
Tianqi Sun, CEO of robotics firm Vincross, came up with the idea to mod one of his robots to care for a succulent that it carries on its head. I'm completely amazed. Out of all the cool robots I've seen this year coming out of the woodwork this may just be the coolest of all!
This small Hexa, crab-like looking robot, goes for $949 and is a cool way for people to have a chance to experiment with robotics.
Tianqi said in his post that he was inspired by a dead sunflower and it was the reason in which he decided to make the Hexa. "The dead flower sat in a place that was always in a shadow. I had no idea how it ended up there or why it died - whether it was because of the lack of sunshine or water - but it was just there, and it was dead. I thought, if it could move a little bit, take a 30-feet walk out of the shadow to where the other sunflowers were, it would have lived healthily. But it didn't."
Well this is the type of robot I could support.
The type that truly helps the living, encourages growth and supports the weak. When we use technology in the pursuit of what is good and right, life gets a little better. Lets keep developing and building upon it with that goal in mind shall we?
I'd love to know how my fellow @ADSactly society members feel about these new robots.
Do you feel comfortable going to a restaurant fully controlled by robots from pan to plate?
Do you think taking the humanity out of the food would make it any less enjoyable or delicious?
Here's a chance for the @ADSactly community to leave their thoughts and opinions on this topic!
Thanks for reading.
Authored by: @techblogger
In-text citations sources:
Why you should let a robot cook your next meal - The Verge
This little robot moves in and out of the sun to care for a plant that lives on its back - Business Insider
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This news reminds me of one of the recent episodes of X-files where the heroes evolve in a world of robotic restaurants, cars in drivers, connected houses and ... it goes bad for them because they refused a tip to .. robot. We hope it does not end like this!
For me, this does not compete with the cooks....On the contrary, it is a tool to simplify life. It must be admitted, we will gain in efficiency. Especially that the preparation of a burger is a work to the chain.
So I do not know any burgers who are having fun in their job.
Anyway, it's industrial food. As much as the process goes to the end.
Robotics has fascinated me for the longest time. So much so that four years 7 years ago I switched my field to robotics and then went into research a while ago. Although robotics capture the fancy of many but few understand the simplicity (and the daunting complexity at the same time) that goes into designing a machine of such caliber.
Automated processes have been a part of our lives for so long that we forget that robotics and automation go hand in hand and even marge at some points of application. From our cars to underground railways, the applications are there and functioning to make iyr daily lives easier.
From Military, industrial to medical advancements - robotics is now an integral part of them all. One of the more interesting applications is the food industry - and like a lot of other production lines, they too have a deep involvement of automated processes.
On the other hand a I have never eaten a pizza made by a manipulator (robotics arm) and would love to have some :-)
The government have just come out a few years ago with a new micro bot that can take over any human brain and make them complete slave to do their bidding at will and leaves no trace or memories affects. It is injected into the blood stream by a larger micro bot like a bug bite or by breathing it into your lungs like as small as pollen. No repellent or anti pollen drug can help you. They do however select their targets by the background checking to whom might have a past that can at times look normal by the behavior that best fits the targets selected. Large or earth magnets or a large shock like a stun gun can cause them to malfunction or so it is rumored...
Gradually,
...they are taking away our jobs.
...they are making us less interactive.
...they are making our world less social.
Science and technology will no doubt continue to advance and to a large extent there is nothing you and I can do about it.
It no doubt has it good sides; especially in medicine.
Grim times we live in then eh? Wouldn't awareness of this fact mean there is still hope to change though?
I don't see us going back to our old ways of doing thing. The Robotic Era is already here, faster that we expected.
Today our markets are filled with self driven cars, cooking robots, various humanoid robots, etc and many more are still being introduced into the market as we steem.
Well, I’m pretty sure there is just a few people having any doubts about that 😃. I agree with you, I find robotics to be one of the most exciting fields along with blockchain technology as well. However, at the same time it’s scary thought to know one day robots will take over almost everything people do today including weapon operations.
Harmless robot making the best tasting burgers 🍔 is definitely fine with me since I don’t eat burgers at all 😆. Hexa would be kind of handy. In summer time I do have to move our flower plants to shade almost every single day including watering.
We used to think that man is the crown of creation. Standing on the top stage of evolution, he adapted to use natural resources for his purposes, and here is a cave hunter who recently put a trap for a mammoth, is already exploring space.
Modern robots have penetrated into many areas of human life. Their diversity is amazing: here and just children's toys, and the whole automated factories, surgical complexes, artificial Pets, military and civilian drones. Their constant development and improvement is engaged in a set of the organizations in the world.
The question of whether a person or a robot should do a particular job lies in the differences between people and machines. At the moment, even the most advanced of the machines operate on certain pre-programmed algorithms (albeit sometimes very complex). They have no free will, freedom of choice, desires and impulses, nothing that defines the creative component of a person. The robot can perform the work of great complexity and accuracy, will be able to perform this work in such conditions in which a person would not have lived an hour. But he will not be able to write a book or a script for a new film, to create a painting, unless it was pre-laid in his memory by man. Therefore, creative professions, where non-standard is important, unconventional thinking, of course, remain for people. A robot can be a welder, a loader, a painter, even an astronaut, but it cannot become (at least at this stage of development) a writer, a poet or an artist.
Now I see that there is a huge gap between a man and a robot, but every year the algorithms of machine learning are improved, and it may well be that in a few decades the artificial mind will surpass the human.
Wow that's insane, maybe we can pair up with them and have a computer that makes you some money on the crypto markets while whipping you a frittata
Ive written this idea down and now im at the patent office! I'll be Edison and you can be Nicola Tesla! Haha jk. Just give me a fritata please.
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Robots are key to our future. As well as making ourselves adaptable to survive anything and do anything as humans. Robots can do what we can’t or what is “impossible” to humans. Example fully explore planets that humans wouldn’t stand a chance on or issues with travelling at high speed and g force would be bypassed for further exploration controlled by humans. Humans get the job done because anything is possible for us✌️ if something wasn’t supposed to happen it would never have been possible for it to happen in the first place
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