Just gonna leave this right here...

[BourBonQ]

Wave of the (near) future?...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/08/24/640511068/fad-or-the-future-robot-made-burgers-wow-the-crowds-in-san-francisco

[jecucolo]

I saw that. I would try it.

[FireMan]

I once had a dream
To make a machine
so I could eat
A patti of meat

Then I thought
I should not ought
to have dreamed.

[Mudkat]

Ditto

I bought this new burger and took it home.
Threw out the burger and ate the styrofoam.

[Troutman]

My first girl friend was named Flippy...but we won't go there .....

[FireMan]

Was she a hippy?

And you went there.

[Troutman]

Yes Flippy was a hippie, she ended up married to the Hippie Dippie Weatherman, who gave out the hippie dippie weather....man

[richinlbrg]

The Hippy Dippy Weatherman......haven't heard that name in ages. We're showing our age! Carlin was great!

[Bumby]

I wonder how many folks he'll need to hire to keep the machine running smoothly...especially if he gets years of use out of it...

[Pastrami Joe]

I bet in less then 75 years Artificial Intelligence and some sort of robotic applications will be part of way over 50% of businesses

[Mudbeaver]

My wife has a robot mop, when it’s going I stand with my pistol, tin foil hat on my head, naked, with cotton, foil hat on him as well, and watch it until it’s done, then I make her turn it off and LOCK it in the closet. Then I put two rounds through the door so it knows, let the kids in the house and go on with my day

[Steve R.]

Better safe than sorry!

[JimLinebarger]

Naked? How well does the robot mop, and what exactly does it mop?

[Mudbeaver]

JimLinebarger yes naked that way it can’t sense my clothes, it does hard floors, like a little square thing, does fairly well

[ecowper]

as the joke goes ....

I came downstairs for breakfast with my pistol on my hip

Wife: Why are you wearing your pistol in the house

Me: Damn Decepticons!

Wife: laughs

Me: laughs

Toaster: laughs

I pull pistol and shoot the toaster

[N227GB]

Bwahaaaahaaaa!

[Spinaker]

Hasn't Mickey D's been doing this for years?

[N227GB]

I was thinking Burger King with the conveyor belt broiler.

[JGo37]

As long as they never make robots to go fishing for me...

[Polarbear777]

How many people need to clean and maintain that thing vs. the one cook it replaces?

Get a machine to do all the cleaning first.

[gijsveltman]

Personally, I really, REALLY hate this kind of trend. I recently saw some pizza-making-robot. Got a little sad. What's the point of having everything machine-made? There's so much more to lose than there is to gain from these ventures.

Food to me is about humanity and the people that make it. And you can't feel that connection to a robot, no matter how good the burger is.

[HouseHomey]

BOOM! Drop the Mic, AND RIDE AWAY INTO THE SUNSET!!

[N227GB]

The 4.5-ounce beef patties are ground from brisket and cooked using the induction method, both sides at once, then slid into the boxes.

Hamburger ground from brisket?

[Gunderich_1]

Anybody remember Terminator? Skynet? It's a slippery slope my friends. Rise of the machines is here. Robot burgers are just the begining. Tin foil hats not included.........

[Steve R.]

It's all fun and games until the robots figure out that humans need less food than cows do.