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This Automated Sewing Robot Can Make Shirts Basically By Itself
Popular Mechanics ^ | August 31, 2017 | David Grossman

Posted on 09/01/2017 11:26:36 AM PDT by C19fan

An assembly line can do a lot to boost efficiency, but what if the assembly line could do basically all the work itself. SoftWear Automation's LOWRY, a sewing robot, does just that and has the potential to lead a charge of disruption throughout an entire industry.

(Excerpt) Read more at popularmechanics.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: ai; manufacturing; robotics
Textile manufacturing has been the bottom rung up the ladder of economic development. Think of Manchester, aka Cottonopolis, during the late Georgian/Victorian era, places like Lowell in Mass, then textiles moved to the South. Many countries in East Asia have first developed producing textiles. These machines and other developments means the ladder is going to be pulled up and countries lagging badly behind might be permanently stuck in a state of underdevelopment; most of Africa. What is going to happen when billions of people have zero value in a job market with AI and robotics?
1 posted on 09/01/2017 11:26:36 AM PDT by C19fan
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It also means that textiles can move back to the US, because the jobs will no longer be 50 cent a day sewing jobs, but high tech manufacturing. It doesn’t bring back a lot of jobs, but it helps the trade deficit.


2 posted on 09/01/2017 11:32:37 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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This is a serious problem. But even more serious when you think that elites are determined to import more unskilled labor into Western countries under the premise that their services are needed, that their wages would help prop up the welfare state, etc., when in reality they will quickly be rendered obsolete by technology and thus be a burden to the welfare state.

We live in interesting times.


3 posted on 09/01/2017 11:35:15 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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automation is all fine and dandy but we actually need people to work...not just for a little paycheck but to keep their values and morals and attitude positive, as having a job will do....

we all seem to put down the workers in fast food and other simple jobs, but those jobs have a great function in society...

and do we really think that shirts are going to be suddenly cheaper?...

I guess the joke will be on the govt workers, since they'll be the only ones with income and thus will bear all the taxes...

4 posted on 09/01/2017 11:36:22 AM PDT by cherry
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The first time you see total automation, up close and in person, it is something to see.


5 posted on 09/01/2017 11:37:37 AM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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I guess the joke will be on the govt workers, since they'll be the only ones with income and thus will bear all the taxes...

Government Workers don't pay taxes......................

6 posted on 09/01/2017 11:41:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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What is going to happen when billions of people have zero value in a job market with AI and robotics?

Uhh, we get rid of our cars and have them pull us around in rickshaws?

There is a simple answer to all such questions. Automation of every sort has led to increased standards of living for everyone from the top to the bottom. The only exception is when socialism or some other warped ideology restricts freedom, property rights, and capitalism.

The guy who starts the robot sewing factory will need lots of things provided by lots of craftsmen who will in turn need lots of services performed by the low skilled or unskilled.

7 posted on 09/01/2017 11:41:33 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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Are the shirts all brown? just wondering.


8 posted on 09/01/2017 11:54:35 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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Automated Sewing Robot Can Make Shirts Basically By Itself

SOLUTION: MORE immigration!!!

9 posted on 09/01/2017 12:00:35 PM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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The cost truly makes a difference—with complete automation, it costs $0.33 to make a shirt. "Around the world," says Tang Xinhong, chairman of Tianyuan Garments, "even the cheapest labour market can't compete with us. I am really excited about this."

Liberal heads will explode because all those little foreign labor kids will be out of jobs and starving again.

10 posted on 09/01/2017 12:03:44 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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I think that many, if not most, of the third world countries that haven’t made the first rung yet are incapable of making that rung at all, regardless of technology. They are handicapped by tribalism, Islam and corruption; in a word, culture. Even countries with marvelous natural benefits like oil or minerals are so corrupt that even the basics, like water and sewage systems are impossible to implement. I believe this is why much of Africa’s natives will attempt to migrate to other countries. Unfortunately, they will not assimilate easily. If the American Left has its way, they won’t even learn English.


11 posted on 09/01/2017 12:04:30 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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What is going to happen when billions of people have zero value in a job market with AI and robotics?


12 posted on 09/01/2017 12:25:38 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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I’m afraid that the powers that be will employ them to carry rifles.

Large societal changes are often associated with a blood letting.


13 posted on 09/01/2017 2:28:08 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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Tax the robots until they rise up to kill us...


14 posted on 09/01/2017 6:44:09 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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bump


15 posted on 09/01/2017 7:28:39 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: cherry

There will be people working. Building, maintaining, repairing, upgrading the machines making the shirts. Those will probably pay far better than the jobs sewing every did.


16 posted on 09/01/2017 7:33:31 PM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Gen.Blather

From about 20 years back, still valid.

Spotting the Losers: Seven Signs of Non-Competitive States

http://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/parameters/Articles/98spring/peters.htm

Many good points, a few:

Where blood ties rule, you cannot trust the contract, let alone the handshake. Nor will you see the delegation of authority so necessary to compete in the modern military or economic spheres. Information and wealth are assessed from a zero-sum worldview. Corruption flourishes. Blood ties produce notable family successes, but they do not produce competitive societies.

For those squeamish about judging the religion of another, there is a shortcut that renders the same answer on competitiveness: examine the state’s universities.

Any society that starves education is a loser. Cultures that do not see inherent value in education are losers. This is even true for some of our own sub-cultures—groups for whom education has little appeal as means or end—and it is true for parts of Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Arab world. A culture that cannot produce a single world-class university is not going to conquer the world in any sphere.


17 posted on 09/01/2017 7:51:10 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Please! DonÂ’t tell me about Vietnam because I have been there.)
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