A hamburger-making robot?!

We’d love one.

That can bust out 360 perfectly-made burgers an hour?

Okay, maybe not.

The robot, called Burgeon, promises to make fresher, more consistent burgers and is set to replace thousands of workers in burger bars across the world.

"The Burgeon can crank out a burger every 16 seconds. It grinds the meat, stamps out the patty, sends it along a conveyor-belt grill, toasts the buns, squirts on the condiments, slices and drops in pickles and tomatoes and lettuce, then pops the finished burger into a bag, all in under five minutes," reports The Mercury News who've seen the robot in action.

Ingredients ready to go...

The team behind the food-bot include members trained in mechanical engineering, control systems and physics.

The company says it is already working on the next model, which will offer custom meat grinds for every single customer that includes creating an especially-made-for-you burger and use gourmet cooking techniques never before used in a fast food restaurant, giving the patty the perfect char but keeping in all the juices.

Swoooosh! There goes the bun!

If there was any doubt that the humble burger cook's job is at all doomed, the company in charge, Momentum Machines, has this statement for them:

"Our alpha machine replaces all of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant."

Ouch.