Wow.. racist much! Me and my group of friends have been using it since 2003-4..

Indian subs on reddit were always there.. Reddit's algorithm might be showing them more to og OP.

Not sure why I need to get excited on this. It doesn't give anything out about technology used, and where it's used.
For all we know it could just be spoons on motors that just plops prepared food from the box underneath onto a bowl that rotates each time a spoon plops food onto it so the food doesn't fall on top of each other (ok.. this is over simplified, but you get the idea).
This might just be automating the low hanging fruit of front counter work of places like Chipotle, Subway etc.

These are easy extensions built on technologies that already exist. It's basically just amazon echo mounted on a roomba/neato/roborock, without the cleaning utility.
Atl east add some incremental changes. It needs to negotiate stairs to be useful in most homes.

We won't be that lucky. Automation only takes away the leaf nodes.. the analysts, the tellers, the front office etc. The men in the golden suits will still sit on their throne..

Finally they might be able to buy a condo in Sunnyvale.

Traveller 5642: You are in violation of protocol 2

I've owned windows laptops (Dell inspiron, Lenovo, HP, Asus). NONE of them lasted me more than the 4 years. My 2013 Mac book air, even though expensive, is still going strong (and I work 8-12 hrs a day, everyday). If the new hire has to actually return the laptop to you when she leaves (i.e. it is not a gift/job perk and you can give it to you next employee), MBA would be a good investment.

With AI based image recognition libraries commoditized and made incredibly easy to use, why would anyone want these guys specifically to make weapons. Anyone can make them.

Why else would he remove an actual ESC key from the new mac keyboard and put some touch thingie there! And now he is slowly killing older devices. Vim usage will definitely go down :P

You don't seem to grasp that any tech involving AI/Pattern recognition is going to be error prone and even a .001% error is magnified at the scale at which warehouses and stores are maintained. Logic based on scales is deterministic and fairly simple to implement.

As for cost, a weight sensor for each shelf cost less than $30 in retail:
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/weight...

Let's take about 30 aisles, 20 racks per aisle, and 5 shelves per rack.. so about 3000 shelves or about $90K in sensors.
You can get a sectional shelf for around $65:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gondo...

So for shelving, it would cost around $39K. It'd be around $130K (not taking into account the cost savings Walmart will get to get this in scale). The maintenance would be much less than that of the robot.
The software logic would be simple, if one box of Toilet paper is 1kg, then how many toilet paper boxes are there if the weight read is 9kg... 9 boxes.. that is it.

Why are robots needed here? Wouldn't a simple series of interlinked "smart-shelves" that use the weight-differential to figure out the needed quantity of product in a particular aisle/shelf be good enough?. A ceiling mounted camera with pattern recognition engine can tell whether something is on the floor, detect if it is similar to product on the shelves and factor that into computation. Crunch the two feeds and you have an auto announcement bot yelling "Cleanup on aisle 2" and another bot updating a product counter somewhere that pings the human to replace the product if it goes below a certain threshold.

Why is google lagging behind here? If google has a touch/tap/voice activated assistant that was as good as amazon echo, on the phone, we wouldn't be having this discussion. You don't need to have a permanently listening/seeing device, you can activate it with just a push of a button on the device that you have handy anyway.

On the other side, Amazon echo can easily build the wakeup word detection and the rule engine right into the device without the need to go to the cloud every time. Most of the echo owner I know mostly use it for few canned request/responses. It can go to the web when it needs to go.

Why not mix the shake up in whatever proportion desired and just use a normal straw?

I think, Apple has lost their focus. Who are they gearing their MBP lineup for? I use them for work (coding) & I have absolutely no use of a side grill speakers. If anything, they reduce the life of laptop by allowing more dust in, into heavily engineered tight space.

I think replacing all the adapters with USB-3 is a bold move. I'd love for every damn device to have the same port for everything. The transition would be tough on both, the consumers & the product manufactures, though.

The top touch pad is a nice gimmick, but is useless if you use an external keyboard, and I can't find any use of it other than as a seek bar for media. I can't use it for work where I NEED the function keys.

RTFA: People with higher end smart phones are not happier.. they are happier with their phones. People with Ferraris are not happier than people who own Toyota, they just like their car more. Why do you need a study to prove that?!

If people were not happy with higher end products that they paid more money for, they wouldn't pay more money for it. Which means there would be no demand for higher end products, which implies that society would not reward innovation, which means that the economy will collapse...