Robots are taking over........

[Adam Y.]

http://uktop100.reuters.com/latest/M...10/default.asp
If it works out as expected there will be no more burger flippers at McDonalds. It reminds me of the song "Mr Roboto" which was supposed to be a song against robots in the workplace because of the loss of jobs.

[RogerR]

how can you read anything on that site?
the text (for me) is microscopic.

[sanddrag]

View> Text Size> Medium. That should fix it.

[Adam Y.]

how can you read anything on that site?

It is perfectly readable. Check your font size on your browser. It sometimes randomly changes size on mine.

[Anthony Towne]

you can also hold down the "Ctrl" button and use the mouse roller (if you have one) to make the text smaller or larger.

[RogerR]

Originally posted by sanddrag
View> Text Size> Medium. That should fix it.

that got it.
thanks

[AJ Quick]

Yeah, watch out for Morgui the robot too.

[scuba_sm]

Well, I guess that there has to be somebody to maintain the things... and if every McDonalds uses them, that's a lot of maintaince that has to be done.....

[IMDWalrus]

The URL in the first post doesn't work right now. Try this one.

[Ashley Weed]

Originally posted by scuba_sm
Well, I guess that there has to be somebody to maintain the things... and if every McDonalds uses them, that's a lot of maintaince that has to be done.....

Could this be a possible attempt to evolutionize the working world? Instead of random jobs flipping burgers now after companies buy expensive technology, they will have to hire completely different employees than prior.

[Adam Y.]

Well, I guess that there has to be somebody to maintain the things... and if every McDonalds uses them, that's a lot of maintaince that has to be done.....

Yeah but it is not like the people who used to flip buggers (if the robots replace them) will be able to fix the robots. Also if these robots do involve a lot of maintance then I doubt that McDonalds will use them. I recently read an article about how people at cash registers are also going the way of the hamburger flipper. Home Depot and according that article McDonalds are going to use automated machines.

[IMDWalrus]

Originally posted by Adam Y.
Yeah but it is not like the people who used to flip buggers (if the robots replace them) will be able to fix the robots. Also if these robots do involve a lot of maintance then I doubt that McDonalds will use them. I recently read an article about how people at cash registers are also going the way of the hamburger flipper. Home Depot and according that article McDonalds are going to use automated machines.

Hmm. A lot of retail stores in my area (Meijers, K-Marts, etc.) have installed U-Scan checkout lanes, where you scan your own items and pay the machine for them. There's usually only one person watching over four or five machines. Saves on labor expenses, but some of the stores have complained about people shoplifting from the U-Scan machines all the time. Automated checkouts are nice, but they bring their share of problems.

[Koko Ed]

I worked in an automated warehouse that was so ineffecient they closed it down and have workers on trucks doing their job now.
They had these robots that would cart around skids that were like massive versions of the robots we use in FIRST (3500 lb monsters) but they had cost more to maintain per year than they did to purchase( I remember the day one of them actually caught on fire from their wiring). If one thing wasn't breaking down one minute in that place it was something else.
Until they can develope a true version of artificial intellegence I am not worried about robots replacing workers in every corner of the workplace.

[Elgin Clock]

Originally posted by Koko Ed
( I remember the day one of them actually caught on fire from their wiring). If one thing wasn't breaking down one minute in that place it was something else.

That's what the technicians for those machines call "job security" LOL

[Adam Y.]

Until they can develope a true version of artificial intellegence I am not worried about robots replacing workers in every corner of the workplace.

Any job which involves repetition and precision will eventually be replaced by a robot. As long as the robot really doesn' have to make choices it should be pretty reliable. The robots in the auto industry is one example. Another example of a machine/technology replacing humans is in the use of crash test dummies.(That is a good thing and yes live humans were used before crash test dummies.) Robots are also going to extend the carreers of doctors.