There are about 1.63 million robots on the planet.
The demand for robots has only grown since 2010.
Each year this demand increases by 15 percent more due to technological developments and the trend towards automation.
There are many industries that are beginning to implement robotic technology in their stores in order to improve the production process and provide better service to their consumers. An example is the Chipotle fast food restaurant, which hired a robot to slice avocados.
According to a BBVA study, “robotics does not aspire to replace human beings through mechanization and automation of tasks, but rather to find ways of more efficient collaboration between robots and people.”
From the domestic to the industrial, these technological figures are the future. According to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR, for its acronym in English) there were 42,041 industrial robots installed in Latin America at the end of 2017. Currently, the IFR calculates in its World Robotics study that there are some 1.63 million robots on the planet. In 2019, a robotic population of up to 2.6 million was registered.
Chipotle and its new robot
The Chipotle fast food restaurant is trying out a new worker who is in charge of slicing the chain’s famous avocados.
The Mexican franchise introduced Autocado on Wednesday, a robot that will handle the arduous process of slicing, coring and peeling avocados in front of human hands, then mashing the food and adding other ingredients.
The company shared that the new device can hold up to 25 avocados at a time that a worker would carry in the restaurant.
The prototype is currently being tested at the Chipotle Cultivate Center in Irvine, California. The company hopes to test the device in restaurants later this year, CNBC reported.
Chipotle partnered with robotics company Vebu, which worked with certified Chipotle training managers to learn how avocados are prepared before serving to customers.
“We are committed to exploring collaborative robotics to drive efficiencies and alleviate pain points for our employees,” Curt Garner, Chipotle’s chief technology and customer officer, said in a statement.
Likewise, he explains that the intensive work is to cut, core and remove the avocados. “We want to maintain the essential culinary experience of hand-mashing and preparing guacamole to our exacting standards.”
They share that with this new addition to the kitchen, it now takes her around 50 minutes to make a batch of guacamole with the goal of cutting that time in half with Autocado.
“Autocado has the potential to work together with Chipotle crew members to create the same delicious guacamole that Chipotle fans love, but more efficiently than ever before,” Vebu CEO Buck Jordan said in a statement. release.
With this movement, it is demonstrated how many fast food franchises are using robotics or even Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve their processes and with that their sales.
An example is the case of the first robotic McDonald’s, located in the United States, which surprised consumers with its implemented tools.
And this is how the new changes continue to amaze people, because over time the ways in which we live change for the better.
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