I for one welcome our new robot underdogs

[AtW]

The vast majority in the supermarket I go to don't use the automatic checkout and they still need someone to stand there and check it. I think it is highly doubtful that robots will be serving you in a restaurant or that anyone will be replaced. The benefit of the automatic check out is simply if you have a small number of goods you don't have to wait in a queue, so the supermarket benefits by increasing its turnover not through replacing people with automation.

Yeah, if only Amazon got your memo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmMk1Myrxc

Video from 2016

[vetran]

I’ll start worrying only when they begin replacing CUK posters

hook a keyboard up to a slurry truck for general

[BlasterBates]

Yeah, if only Amazon got your memo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmMk1Myrxc

Video from 2016

You'll need more than a handful of small stores to prove this will be much better than automated check out used in all other supermarkets. Of course a small store will work this way, but not large supermarkets.

[OwlHoot]

The vast majority in the supermarket I go to don't use the automatic checkout and they still need someone to stand there and check it. I think it is highly doubtful that robots will be serving you in a restaurant or that anyone will be replaced. The benefit of the automatic check out is simply if you have a small number of goods you don't have to wait in a queue, so the supermarket benefits by increasing its turnover not through replacing people with automation.

Suitable RFID chips on every item would mean a whole trolley full of goods could be swiped in one go, instead of having to be manually swiped one at a time. But checkout staff might still be needed to pack the items

[ladymuck]

This episode of the X-Files was very good and I think covers what our future will be like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmv8ZKR6ek

This is just the trailer, which doesn't do the episode justice as it was actually quite funny too.

Look for Season 11, Episode 7 "Rm9sbG93ZXJz"

[BlasterBates]

Suitable RFID chips on every item would mean a whole trolley full of goods could be swiped in one go, instead of having to be manually swiped one at a time. But checkout staff might still be needed to pack the items

They've been around a while. The reason they aren't used is because they're expensive and unreliable. Fine for a small store to "make a point" but not really suitable for large supermarkets on low profit margins.

[DoctorStrangelove]

This episode of the X-Files was very good and I think covers what our future will be like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmv8ZKR6ek

This is just the trailer, which doesn't do the episode justice as it was actually quite funny too.

Look for Season 11, Episode 7 "Rm9sbG93ZXJz"

Yes.

The Future is not Written.

[Paralytic]

I’ll start worrying only when they begin replacing CUK posters

I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but there's already an "ask your accountant" bot on these very boards!

[Gibbon]

I've always said my job could be easily replaced by a two line macro. I've been working on said macro for years

FTFY

[vetran]

FTFY

If working try not to snore.
If not working drink

I nailed it for me.