Posted on 10/06/2014 11:26:07 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Volkswagen hopes to put more robots to work as it says goodbye to its retiring baby boomer employees, the company’s chief of human resources wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Monday. […]
“In the German auto industry, labor costs are more than €40 per hour; eastern European labor costs €11; in China, it’s still than less than €10,” (Horst) Neumann wrote.
“A current robotic replacement for assembly work currently costs around €5 an hour. Predictably, next-generation robotics will be even cheaper. We have to take make the most of this price advantage.” …
Let’s see the unions organize them.....
Good for them.
Beats importing hordes of 3rd worlders in to do the “work Germans won’t do,” or because of “labor shortages.”
Quite a few VWs sold in the US are assembled in Mexico still. You can bet that those jobs will go too.
Volkswagen has said their MQB platform for automobiles are designed to be highly robotized in production. And it appears that this story confirms that.
[Let’s see the unions organize them.....]
The Robot Union Local 10101010101010101 has determined that human workers in a factory degrade robotic production quotas and will be EXTERMINATED....
EXTERMINATE!!!! EXTERMINATE!!!!
The “zero point” where computers surpass humans has been, and is here. The lowest intelligence sector has been surpassed, and the equality point is moving up the bell curve. In another decade or so, it will be encroaching on the brightest laborers and even some professionals.
Welcome your new masters.
We will all soon be the fat slobs on the kid movie WALL-E.
Who will assemble, test, install and maintain the robots though?
History has shown people will find or invent new professions , unless they become welfare slaves to the state.
WOW! IMPRESSIVE! Robots that can design, implement, debug, and document complex software! Simple stuff though, right? Things like ABM guidance systems, GPS software, medical software, sonar software,why I guess the list is almost endless. But, hey, thank goodness the programmer bots came along just in time to replace us old farts!
And will the costs of the vehicles go down??? Of course not...We'll just have a lot more new billionaires...And that's going to put far, far too many people on welfare...What we need is an Ebola type thing to thin the crowds...
Design will be the last professions to go but it is inevitable that machines will exceed human performance one day. They may even be semi-organic machines with processors modeled after our brains.
“We’ll just have a lot more new billionaires...And that’s going to put far, far too many people on welfare...What we need is an Ebola type thing to thin the crowds...”
I envision a class of people who will own the machines for generations. Similar to hereditary royalty except peasants will no longer be needed to work.
The only reasons for the elite having peasants around is work and cherry-picking beautiful women. Machines will eventually replace both.
“Design will be the last professions to go but it is inevitable that machines will exceed human performance one day. They may even be semi-organic machines with processors modeled after our brains.”
Indeed, this is basically what the “Frankenstein Hypothesis” is really all about. Can we create something that exceeds ourselves. Did our own creators create us with that potential? Did they create us to exceed them? Are such things possible, or is their some sort of universal “law of creation limit”?
You think you’re jesting, but.....
Other robots.
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