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Hey, she looks like one of Rin's dolls.....with clothes.

mmmarvel says

Now we have robots doing this ...

Robots are overpriced.

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Robots are great when energy is cheap.

thunderlips11 says

Robots are great when energy is cheap.

It will take a while before energy (i.e. electricity) reaches $15 an hour.

mmmarvel says

thunderlips11 says

Robots are great when energy is cheap.

It will take a while before energy (i.e. electricity) reaches $15 an hour.

Even then an air puppet doesn't' take breaks, require health care or lose a smile.

Of course the air puppet can't go out and buy a Slurpee. And someone else's air puppets can't buy whatever this air puppet's boss is selling. So economically its a dead end.

Also, when the robot tries to take the ketchup packets out of the bin and there are no more, and nobody programmed it to drive 10 feet to the left, make right turn, 12.5 feet forward, turn 180 agrees, turn the lever just so, look on the 3rd shelf, 6 inches from the right, obtain the box, open the box, bring the open box to the counter, and empty the box into the bin on the second shelf under the register, it will reach down to the second shelf, right hand bin and hand out empty air to customers and say "Here is your ketchup... thank you for your business!"

If it was programmed to do that, and no human placed the box of ketchup packets on the 3rd shelf, 6" from the right in the pantry, even though 6 boxes of it were stacked right outside the pantry door with "KETCHUP PACKETS" in huge font, boldfaced, it still couldn't bring the ketchup. Even the retard employee would figure that out.

If robots were cost-effective, functional, or efficient, there wouldn't be any McD's employees in Denmark, Switzerland, or Australia.