They're Taking Our Jobs: Little Caesar's Sign Flipping Bot

This is a video of a sign-flipping robot employed by a Little Caesar's franchise in Tacoma, Washington. Except he's not so much of a sign-flipper as he is a sign-wiggler. Also, I like how they have him chained to a tree in anticipation of some college frat stealing him for their basement. That said, there are some seriously talented HUMAN sign flippers around where I live, and they are NOT afraid to show off their skills. Or yell at you if you throw a handful of change at them. Oh I'm sorry, Mr. Millionaire!

Hit the jump for the video.

Thanks to Karsten, who heard Pizza Hut is secretly using robotic pizza tossers but keeps it hush-hush because they know how much outrage it would spark. "There would be no outrage." Well I would be pissed.

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