You might have been familiar with artificial intelligence and automation and robotics, and a lot of people do still debate if this technological advancement will be taking away human jobs or not. Well I will not be supporting any school of thought on that, but I will be looking at what is happening presently with the presence of artificial-intelligence, robotics and automation in so many companies being that it has displace a few human labor which means that in the next ten years if this advancement becomes a generally acceptable one, then it will possibly displace more. Some people say it should displace about 1 billion jobs in 2030 and some others say automation will not replace jobs, rather it will replace tasks. Then I might be forced to ask who does the tasks before Artificial intelligence and robotics takes over? Whatever your point of view is, the truth is that artificial intelligence and robotics will be doing a lot of changes, including how goods and services are provided and how businesses run. I will want you to be the judge yourself.
The Food Service industry
In a regular food restaurant and or canteen, there used to be a lot of employees, from the chefs and cooks, cleaners, servers, Dish washers, cashiers, barista (in cases of a café), bussers, bartenders and so on. This is a large group of people working together to make things in a food service industry go well and give satisfaction to consumers demand and taste. With full automation of this services, I do not think there will be more than four people in a food service restaurant, café, canteen or any other food service related business.
Spyce’s robotic woks (PC: Boston Globe)
Let’s take a look at a food service startup SPYCE. Founded by four robotic engineers from MIT who teamed up with Chef Daniel Boulud. Spyce have a restaurant in Boston and uses a semi-automated method with seven robotic automated Chef. It is semi-automated because a team of cooks come to prepare the ingredient overnight and during the day when the restaurant is open for work, people just come to place orders on touch screen monitors which activates what the automated robotic cooking machines should prepare. The machine starts to deliver the ingredients into the automated works, where the meals are cooked and served to be garnished by human servers who do both the garnishing and the serving. Nobody needs to worry about washing and sanitizing as the machines do that themselves after each meal. You see that a lot of people aren’t in the chain of production and distribution and when this becomes fully automated, there might be no need for anyone to be employed but service are fast and customers like the speed and orderliness.
Another food service startup is CREATOR, a bugger startup in San Francisco which is fully automated. It took the startup 8 years to create their burger making robots which has 350 sensors, 50 actuators and 20 computers. The robots are able to make 120 burgers per hours which are made from scratch which takes 30 seconds from start to finish. With this, there is only one person who monitors how the machines works and do nothing else since the machines serve the burger through a tube and 30 seconds isn’t too much a long time for a person to wait.
I will not be the judge here, maybe I will use the jury system to make my conclusion and you will be my jury. DO you think artificial intelligence, robotics and automation will displace people from their jobs or not? Place Jury votes and comments!!!!