Robots run this burger restaurant and can serve your meal in just 27 seconds

Fast food just got even faster.When it comes to flipping burgers, robots are making mincemeat out of the human competition — just check out the newly-opened Burgerbots in California’s Silicon Valley, where automated line cooks can churn out meat pucks in under 30 seconds sans sleep, bathroom breaks or hair in your food.“The vision was to bring consistency, transparency, and efficiency to food service,” said Elizabeth Truong, creator of the innovative concept, located in the tony and tech-y town of Los Gatos.“For restaurant owners, it means better visibility of food costs, more accurate forecasting and – ultimately – better decision making. Unveiled in collaboration with ABB Robotics, the shtick involves two cybernetic assembly droids working together inside a special burger-making cell to assemble the all-beef patty noshes with superhuman precision and speed, Interesting Engineering reported.The process kicks off with a fresh-cooked meat puck slapped onto a bun inside a box, before getting ferried along a conveyor belt that’s stamped with a QR code.As the food’s getting shuttled along, the intuitive Flexpicker (that’s one of the droids) selects its toppings — including special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, and onion — lickety-split, utilizing the QR code’s data.The burgernator then passes the baton to the YuMi (that’s the other mechanical meal maker) so it can put the finishing touches on the nosh.

Total time elapsed: 27 seconds per sandwich — and without a side of attitude.This assembly process makes its debut a year after California’s controversial $20 minimum wage law sent shockwaves through the Golden State’s fast food scene.But if you think taking a human out of the equation is going to save you money on your bill, forget it — the finished product here reportedly costs a heady $18.

Naturally, automating the fast food process might seem rough on human employees at a time when machines threaten to render various vocatio...