Tech expo: Never send chef to do robot's job

[anon]

Japan's state-of-the-art robot technologies have reinvented factory assembly lines and wowed the world with humanlike androids, but wider applications loom and a Tokyo exhibition that kicked off Tuesday will serve some of them up - literally.

Several robots showed off their unique skills during the International Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition, dubbed FOOMA Japan, which runs through Friday at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto Ward.

During the "Robot Food Park" demonstration, Okonomiyaki Robot, developed by Osaka-based Toyo Riki Co., boasted its prowess in cooking "okonomiyaki" - Osaka's trademark meat, vegetable and seafood pancake.

Tech expo: Never send chef to do robot's job | The Japan Times Online (http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20090610a1.html)

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robots as well as computers allow for a reduction in human power needed for complicated/hard tasks, but as we see in this example it applies to easy tasks too - the reason why technology advances are sometimes criticized to cause more workers to loose their jobs or that need continuous education in order to keep up with new technology thus keeping their employment

this is a natural development and i expect in the future that people will have less working hours per month than before, with better results as a consequence of using advanced tools/machines like robots/computers, which in turn would give them more free time to pursue their own goals that are not necessarily connected with their job description :top: