Flying drones to replace waiters? Autonomous restaurant drones transport food from kitchen to table

Friday, November 28, 2014
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Tags: restaurant drones, food delivery, displaced workers

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(NaturalNews) Singapore company Infinium Robotics has just announced a new autonomous drone that delivers food to customers' tables at restaurants. The robotic flying drone carries meals and drinks from the kitchen to customers, hovering just beside the table to allow customers to remove their items. The drone then returns to the kitchen to recharge and wait for more "missions."

The Infinium drones are designed to "take away mundane tasks of serving food and drinks," explains company CEO Woon Junyang in Channel Asia News. [1] "This will result in an enhanced dining experience which will eventually lead to increased sales and revenue for the restaurants."

Although the Infinium drones appear to be able to easily handle Singapore-sized meals and beverages, it's not yet clear whether the drones are large enough to carry the mega-sized American meals without crashing. In America, a meal platter for a single person often contains the same quantity of food that an entire family would eat in India or South America.

Robots will increasingly make unskilled labor obsolete

The deployment of restaurant drones is just another sign that the era of robots displacing human workers in unskilled labor jobs is now upon us. The food service industry is ripe for automation via robots, and while flying robots may be the easiest to deploy right now, humanoid robots that flip burgers, unload delivery trucks and prepare food ingredients are arriving over the next decade or so. As these robots sweep into service markets, millions of unskilled human workers who currently hold such jobs will be left unemployed.

This is especially relevant when considering how fast food workers in America are already protesting in the streets for $15 / hour wages. The higher the wages demanded by workers, the more quickly restaurants can justify investments in robots that replace them.

Unlike human workers, restaurant drones and humanoid robots:

• Don't call in sick
• Don't sexually harass coworkers
• Don't steal food
• Don't spit in the food
• Don't get high on breaks
• Don't insult the customers
• Don't slack off and whine about being asked to work
• Don't require Obamacare coverage
• Don't need vacation days
• Don't quit unexpectedly
• Don't divulge company secrets to competitors
• Don't have their arms and necks covered with gang tattoos

Sources for this article include:
[1] http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapor...