Nala Robotics has launched a fast food robot that it says can fry chicken wings, French fries, and other foods, season them, and plate them all autonomously.
“With its built-in clean in place functionality, The Wingman uses artificial intelligence and high-performance camera and vision systems to significantly improve efficiency for high-volume deep frying, while maintaining high-quality consistency,” Nala Robotics says.
Cost of Wingman robotic chef versus a human workerEven if the human worker’s hourly wage is $7/hour, Wingman saves restaurant owners 20% on labor costs. With the ongoing labor shortage, however, many fast food restaurants who are struggling to retain workers find that they’re having to pay $15/hour. And a new law signed by California governor Gavin Newsom this month will push some fast food workers’ salaries up to $22/hour. At $22/hour, Wingman will save employers 75% on wages, assuming 18 hours of operation per day over an average 30-day month. Naturally, restaurants that are open 24/7 will see even more savings. All of which means, as robots get better and humans get more expensive, we might seem massive job loss. As of May 2021, there were“fast food and counter” workers in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Around year five or seven, you’re going to start seeing a lot of … a lot or all new-build kitchens being completely reinvented, fully autonomous, no humans in the back of house, 25% the square footage, probably fits in a shipping container, completely changing the entire industry and potentially disrupting the franchise model,” Miso Robotics cofounder Buck JordanOf course, the reality is you’re still going to need people to fill the freezer with food, clean, take the food to customers, and manage payment. Robot proponents argue that this frees people up to do what they’re best at: higher-value tasks like engaging with customers.But it’s also likely true that introducing more and more robots to jobs in the fast food and other industries is going to cause at least short-term job loss. And that retraining and reskilling programs will be essential to help people take higher-value jobs.
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