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July 18, 2020 04:03 pm

Burger-Flipping Robot 'Flippy' Gets New Test at White Castle

Remember Flippy, the burger-flipping robot who was fired for being too slow? Since then he's been busy — and his robotic arm just landed a test gig flipping burgers in a White Castle restaurant in Chicago, reports Mashable:Since its unveiling in 2018, Flippy has cooked more than 40,000 pounds of fried food — including 9,000 sandwiches at LA's Dodger Stadium, the Arizona Diamondbacks' Chase Field, and two CaliBurger locations, where it works alongside humans to increase productivity and consistency. "I think automation is here to stay and this is the first example of a really large credible player starting down that journey," Miso Robotics CEO Buck Jordan told TechCrunch of the White Castle collab. Engineers are working to install the latest version of Flippy at an undisclosed location in Chicago, where the mechanical fry cook will be integrated into the restaurant's point-of-sale system, allowing it to get to work as soon as an order is placed. Customers in the Windy City can keep an eye out for Flippy starting in September. That "latest version" is named Flippy ROAR (Robot-on-a-Rail), according to USA Today. Citing a statement from White Castle, they report that "The idea is to reduce human contact with food during the cooking process..."

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