Robots are going to bring a change to the world and that will not exclude the food industry. From vending machines to robotic arms, I will be sharing the importance of robots in the food industry and how they will be changing this industry in a few years from now. A lot of ready to eat food restaurants and companies are situated in cities and have to acquire a large space, employ a skilled worker and pay high rent. This expenses can be very ugly most especially when the food restaurant is a new one.
In the future, robots will be doing tasks which humans do from managing, supervising, labour and even cooking which will save businesses a lot of money on rent, worker’s salaries and wages as well as time for production. It is believed by business people that the money saved from using robot will be invested to grow the business and create high quality meals.
Zume pizza CEO says they spend less money on labour that do repetitive tasks having robots to do them, thereby spending money on high quality food products. Now my question is, will this company go fully automated and if they do what will happen to their workers in the future.
A lot of people are already scared of automation seeing it as a second boss compared to the owner of the business. Will the future of robotics and automation in the food industry become an issue of telling chefs what ingredient to use and how fast the used ingredient. Will workers be able to take a break from work knowing that a machine is readily available to take over their jobs?
Finding an equilibrium for humans and robots in a kitchen should be the priority of a food company where humans could help the robots as well as the robot do their jobs. MIT researchers say that a team of both machines and humans can be very productive compared to a team of humans or machine alone. Instead of allowing machines take over the jobs of chefs, cooks and other human workers in a food company, it is advisable that both the machine and humans complement their actions thereby giving amazing results.
A few ways can save the next human-robot war in every industry including the food industry and this includes giving robots and humans different tasks, creating a regulation on industries to have a particular number of workers while having automated machines do work in the same company. There is no doubt that automation is growing very fast and there are no doubts that humans are scared big time over this effect but finding a good ground for this will be the only way to save a human-robot/human-automation war.