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Despite record low Unemployment, Robots get Laid Off


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2020 Jan 10, 8:58pm   680 views  4 comments

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It has been a bad week for robots in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A Silicon Valley company that used robots to make its pizzas closed this week, and three coffee shops in downtown San Francisco that used robots as baristas also shuttered.

Zume Pizza said it is cutting 172 jobs in Mountain View and eliminating another 80 jobs at its facility in San Francisco. Zume Chief Executive Alex Garden made the announcement in an email to employees Wednesday, the Mercury News in San Jose reported.

The Mountain View startup, which first began delivering pizzas in 2016, said it intends to focus on its food packaging and delivery systems. Garden said former employees will be able to apply for the 100 new positions Zume expects to have in its packaging business.

In San Francisco, Cafe X closed three of its coffee shops in the financial district. The startup’s founder, Henry Hu, said the downtown cafes helped develop the newest machine being used at shops at San Francisco International Airport and Mineta San Jose International Airport, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

When Cafe X launched in 2017, its robotic baristas joined robots that made smoothies and hamburgers or mixed and dispensed salads and quinoa bowls.

Cafe X will continue to have competition in the automated coffee market. Briggo Coffee Haus has a robotic barista that can make 100 drinks per hour at San Francisco airport’s Terminal 3, the Chronicle reported.
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1   Ceffer   2020 Jan 10, 10:34pm  

RealDoll technology giving robots lifelike cleavage, stiff nipples and tip jars will solve this problem
2   HeadSet   2020 Jan 11, 2:46pm  

Ceffer says
RealDoll technology giving robots lifelike cleavage, stiff nipples and tip jars will solve this problem


Is there such a thing as a Blowbot? You know, something like attaching a Real Doll head to a paint shaker.
3   Ceffer   2020 Jan 11, 3:45pm  

HeadSet says
Is there such a thing as a Blowbot? You know, something like attaching a Real Doll head to a paint shaker.

It would be called the Pit Bull Real Doll, but you'd only be sexually mixed up.

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