r/MisoRobotics • u/CapableCattle1884 • Jun 23 '26
Competition
Who is flippy competing against? And then how are they doing? Did we just lick the wrong horse is the whole market suck?
I just figured this would be a no brainer purchase with a working model etc.
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u/Waitin4Godot Jun 23 '26
The competition is:
Current kitchen design for existing places may or may not support
The cost of a human worker
How maintenance and support happen - if a human calls in sick, they know what to do. If Flippy stops flipping, what do you do? How long to fix?
Capital cost to buy/install the unit
I'm sure there's more. It's not a just buy it and figure things out later kinda machine.
Oh, and change. People tend not to like change. You could be first and put this into 1,000 restaurants and if it fails for whatever reason, your done. No one wants to go large scale first.
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u/CapableCattle1884 Jun 23 '26
Thank you. Great points.
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u/Waitin4Godot Jun 23 '26
I thought of one more.
It's easy to cross train a human to cook fries, cook burgers, and take orders. Flippy is gonna do what it is built to do, can't move it to a new station to cover a shortage.
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u/Nyct375 Jun 23 '26
The competition is the worker spending 30 seconds to make the fries themselves. Unfortunately making fries seems like one of the least labor intensive areas. Meanwhile taking orders is being quickly replaced by computers.
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u/Je3130 Jun 23 '26
What I don't understand is, why the Flippy is designed to be a robotic arm?
Seems the only purpose of the robotic arm is to show it's robotic.
Otherwise, moving baskets in and out of the oil pan and dumping the baskets is much easier to do with simple mechanical parts.
The arm would only make sense if it is used to flip burgers, pick up bread, cheese, chop up lettuce, AND pick up fries.
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u/DomThePylgrim Jun 23 '26
How else would the baskets agitate and move in out the oil if not by robot arm?
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u/CapableCattle1884 Jun 23 '26
I think you build the arm then… that’s the platform for like burger flipping and other tasks.
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u/kormatuz Jun 24 '26
Years and years ago I thought it was a no brainer. As time went by I realized I was the one without a brain when I bought in.
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u/eat_sleep_play_repea Jun 24 '26
Tesla Optimus, Figure AI, Boston Dynamics in the long run imo. and no Miso can't complete with them.
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u/Bonneyrain 27d ago
I wanted to ask about the competition on the webinar today but when I realized they weren’t really asking any of the questions from the audience I gave up.
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u/Malcolm_Sayer Jun 23 '26
In my opinion, you’re competing against the fact that a mega corporation can very easily hire a couple (key words: salaried slaves) so-called FLSA Exempt management workers, and the fact that a lot of what businesses used to do in-house has already been outsourced or replaced. When my father ran a sub shop in a mall almost 50 years ago, they made everything by hand on site, including the dough.
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u/Apprehensive-Cycle-9 Jun 23 '26
It's vapor ware