Automation is posed as a labor shortage solution, but workers say robots are making their jobs — and food — worse.
  • Robot chefs are replacing humans at some South Korean highway restaurants.
  • Tech companies say robots can help solve labor shortage in an aging nation.
  • Workers say their roles have been downgraded from chefs to cleaning staff.
  • catch22@programming.devEnglish
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    2 days ago

    These are basically large scale vending machines of the coffee variety. If anyone has ever seen what happens to one of those things when they don’t get cleaned regularly you’ll know what I’m talking about. Absolutely disgusting, every time I see one of them in the wild I avoid them like the plague.

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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    2 days ago

    So someone though that someone who can’t program robots good enough to do the cleaning, could program robots for cooking?

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 days ago

      i think its more the social tolerance of what is acceptable food to eat is more lax than the tolerance of what is an acceptably clean dish is. even automatic dishwashers dont clean perfectly without some level of human intervention.

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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        13 hours ago

        social tolerance of what is acceptable food to eat is more lax than the tolerance of what is an acceptably clean dish is

        If I were to wish that it weren’t, the tolerance for the clean dish part will increase instead.