Fast-Food Robots
Project: Design Media Arts at UCLA

Pittsburgh's Hyperactive Technologies

"The vision system in Hyperactive Bob essentially scans the parking lot for incoming cars. It then cross-references traffic patterns against data about the restaurant—the bell curve of orders, the time of day, cooking times, the current amount of food in the restaurant's warming bins—and issues cooking orders to the employees manning the grill or the deep fat fryer. There isn't a mechanical humanoid assembling chicken sandwiches behind the counter. Instead, Hyperactive Bob combines machine intelligence with human activity."

Wed, Apr 11, 2007  Permanent link

Sent to project: Design Media Arts at UCLA

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