What parts of what humans do in restaurants would take that long for a computer to be able to do?
Of course I'm not talking about proper restaurants here,
I'm talking about somebody who creates a fast food joint based on what can be automated as easily as possible. If something requires a human to make then it doesn't go on the menu.
After all Mcdonalds was basically designed to emulate a factory from the era as much as possible and factory production processes have moved on substantially.
The supervisor role would basically be replaced by a technician, but since humans need allot more supervision than robots, if there was enough reliability and redundancy built in then instead of a full time manager these chains could simply rotate engineers interchangeably between sites (since they are all using the same equipment which does not have human quirks like loyalty).
20-25 years is a pretty short time frame, given there is nothing in robotics technology today that suggests we're close to doing this. I've seen sandwich making robots for six years - they never seen to get much better than the OP video.
Of course I'm not talking about proper restaurants here, I'm talking about somebody who creates a fast food joint based on what can be automated as easily as possible. If something requires a human to make then it doesn't go on the menu.
After all Mcdonalds was basically designed to emulate a factory from the era as much as possible and factory production processes have moved on substantially.
The supervisor role would basically be replaced by a technician, but since humans need allot more supervision than robots, if there was enough reliability and redundancy built in then instead of a full time manager these chains could simply rotate engineers interchangeably between sites (since they are all using the same equipment which does not have human quirks like loyalty).