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Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr... by bluGill on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:04PM (#25852597)
Once the robot exists you can duplicate it cheaper. Once it works in SF with high wages it works in Montana with low wages. It may eventually not work out in poorer countries.
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Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr... by OldHand2018 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:57PM (#25861835)
> Once it works in SF with high wages it works in Montana with low wages.

Can it? The robot in SF may make financial sense because of high utilization. A low-wage worker can do 100+ useful tasks when the restaurant is not busy enough to require constant burger making. Is a burger-making robot flexible enough to match that?

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Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr... by bluGill on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:03PM (#25861917)
The robot can also sit around doing nothing without complaint and for no extra cost. So the robot need not be used 100% of the time. Even in SF the robot will not be used much at 2am.

Though I was referring to the small cities in Montana. Nobody will put a robotic burger joint where there are no people. However a town of 5000 has a lot of people who need to eat, more than enough to make it worth running numbers.

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Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr... by 908B64B197 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:56PM (#25862560)
It won't replace all employees.

It'll just replace some.

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