Why you should let a robot cook your next meal

Why you should let a robot cook your next meal
- July 11, 2018
- David Neumark, economics, The Verge, July 11, 2018
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“I think in a city like San Francisco, there’s two things that make labor more expensive: low supply of low-skilled labor because they can’t afford to live there. The other is minimum wages that feed into the same problem. Both of those things push up labor costs,” says David Neumark, an economist and professor at the University of California, Irvine, who studies wages and labor markets.
For the full story, please visit https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/11/17550848/future-of-dining-automation-robotics-creator-sf-robot-burgers-ai.
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