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Inside Silicon Valley’s Robot Pizzeria
In the back kitchen of Mountain View's newest pizzeria, Marta works tirelessly, spreading marinara sauce on uncooked pies. She doesn’t complain, takes no breaks, and has never needed a sick day. She works for free. Marta is one of two robots working at Zume Pizza, a secretive food delivery startup trying to make a more profitable pizza through machines. It's also created special delivery trucks that will finish cooking pizzas during the journey to hungry customers if approved by the Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health.
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How much would it cost to install something like this into my spare bedroom so that I can carve out a hole for the conveyor belt that leads into my oven?
I like it -- anything that will make pizza cheaper is worth the effort!
I'm coming over! Let me know when you get all set up.
The robots were free? It seems to me that you should take the cost of the robot and divide it by it's life in service hours. Then you would be able to compare the cost to a human employee. Robots are not free labor.
I can imagine these "custom" made robots being expensive at first, but once they are mass produced for the mass automation market, I have a feeling they can pay for themselves with just a year of service.
No doubt. But, it's still not free labor. Also, the maintenance will be expensive and that will have to be factored in. Robots also require preventive maintenance, they are not something that you want to let run until it breaks. Prior to my stint as an engineer for GE Healthcare I was a field engineer for Applied Materials in the semiconductor industry. Probably 25% of my job was programming and maintaining simple robots.
We have seen robot pizza before. It is time to expand on pizza stores run by Cats!
Pizza Hut Run By Cats!
Good news for consistency in taste.