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To: Hardastarboard

The robots will do work third world workers won’t do.


8 posted on 10/20/2016 6:17:34 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Stay ignorant, my friends! (if you watch mainstream media, you will!))
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Based on the “quality” of the garment shown at the end of the video, those third world workers have nothing to worry about at the moment.

Actually, having one robot perform the entire process from end to end is inefficient. The assembly line process developed over 100+ years ago broke the fabrication task down into a series of discrete steps that could be performed in sequence as the item move along the assembly line. Each station along the line was specialized in equipment and training of personnel to rapidly and efficiently perform its step in the process.

This concept, if they stick to it, is actually akin to custom automobile or high end firearms manufacturing where a small team or even a single craftsman performs all the steps in a suboptimized fashion. There is a reason why “hand crafted” is more expensive. Now we can mark the item “hand crafted by robots.” Well, that will at least have novelty going for it.

It’s a step backwards.


10 posted on 10/20/2016 6:37:24 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (also)
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