why is automation removing the joy and creativity of cooking instead of the dishes, which is what the person is left to do.
Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews
Submitted 8 hours ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://restofworld.org/2025/robot-chefs-south-korea-restaurants/
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Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
What do you think a dishwasher is
oldfart@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
More work to prep dishes for washing than actual help
TRBoom@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
I lived in Korea for a couple of years and ate at some of these places while traveling.
It was honestly always good. Basically you do a quick order, get a ticket, then get your food. I always got the fried pork cutlet. That shit was the bomb.
Now that I am back in the states I miss the level of care and dedication that Koreans put into the food they make and I’d go back again just for the eats.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
They are useful when someone works late shifts and wants something proper at like 12pm when every kitchen worker has long gone home. They usually offer a more limited menu but it‘s honestly a neat idea.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
South Korea is genuinely fucked as a country. Population decline is going to ruin them. It’s going to ruin a lot in the U.S as well.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The USA was actually on a survivable path with our low domestic birth rate because of the large immigration was compensating. Well, now we’ve fucked that up royally by kicking out our immigrants, and also made ourselves a pariah on the global stage so no new immigrants will want to come here.
cm0002@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Are they really making the food worse, or are people just biased against it because a robot made it? Because humans are perfectly capable of making shit food themselves as well
In any case, in a world where 1st world countries actually took care of their citizens this would be a non-issue. Either there would be some sort of UBI program in place for workers that get replaced by robots or a worker re-training program or a combination of both (e.g. people still have an income during that training).
x00z@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Only humans can add love.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
Thats called “eyeballing the recipie”
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Either there would be some sort of UBI program in place for workers that get replaced by robots
UBI wouldn’t be just for workers that get replace by robots. The “U” in “UBI” is Universal, meaning everyone gets the Basic Income. From the guy with untreated mental illness that hangs out in the park to the richest billionaire.
cm0002@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Well yea, but rolling it out slowly as people get “displaced” is how it would realistically get started IMO. It would be quite a taxing program for any country to just suddenly start
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
These have been in use in German cantinas for a while as well. Usually inside hospitals or larger office spaces.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Never thought about it before, but is there science fiction with a premise where humans might someday forget how to cook because it’s no longer a part of the culture?
jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Star trek touches on it a bit. Some people definitely still cook in the shows, but it’s almost seen as a thing for special occasions.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
That’s a good point! SNW does have Pike cooking for some of his crew on occasion.
Carrolade@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Not off the top of my head. Cooking is frequently a recreational hobby though, it’s essentially an art form. So I think it’s about equally likely that dancing, painting or making music fade away.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Sewing is fading away but maybe that’s different enough
Goretantath@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
So, why not just replace humans at odd hours of the night some rando walks in, and keep em during normal buisness hours?