Asianometry

The Sushi Robots


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It is 1982. And word in the United States is that the Japanese have made a sushi robot. The newspaper headlines had a blast. "You can have sushi robot for a mere $1.6 million yen", or "Japanese shops resist tide of automation" or "Sushi shop owners at sea over robot in Japan". And when the machine first obtained export clearance to the US, we got the gem "Sushi Robot invasion slices into West Coast". My initial impression of the first Sushi Robot was that it did something with the fish. Cutting it or something. I was wrong. The first Sushi Robot was a rice machine. In today's video, we go back yet again to my favorite carb. And discuss the machine that industrialized the art of sushi.

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