Posted on 09/10/2019 7:22:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There's a new, easy-to-program welding robot launching in November, and for many in the industry it comes not a moment too soon. That's because there are massive labor shortages in the American welding sector.
The robot, called the BotX Welder, is a direct response to industry hiring problems, along with the persistent challenge faced by fabrication companies in producing precision parts in small batches. It's also a feat of engineering and a good example of how automation companies are now standing on the shoulders of a generation of developers who created the underlying technology that's now being deployed to address specific industrial challenges.
"Many people didn't believe that collaborative robots could perform such heavy-duty tasks as welding," says Rob Goldiez, co-founder of Hirebotics. "We realized the need of a solution for small and medium sized metal fabricators trying to find welders."
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“A large order would mean, we need to hire 10-15 welders to fulfill it – and they’re just not out there,”
When I was in Junior High and High school, every boy in school knew how to weld, we all took the shop classes.
I believe automation will produce an abundant supply of material goods — that is: wealth.
I believe many humans will find that their labor will no longer be required by society — we don’t need everyone to be a robot technician.
I believe we will live in a post-scarcity society in which people have time and their hands, and plenty of “stuff”.
I’m not sure human society will handle it well when almost everyone has idle hands.
If you pay them, they will come. Blaming everything on lack of applicants is BS. There are always people willing to work if you are willing to pay. We like to call this system the “free market”.
On the other side of the coin, we have welders wanting too much money. Now they have some serious competition....
Sky net is coming
Then we need more welding placement programs. Finish the welding course, pass the practical tests, then automatically get a job with X company as a welder.
We have a massive number of younger adults looking for decent jobs after being screwed by the college system. This may not be the dream they thought of, but it’s far better pay than food service jobs.
There is welding, and then there is real welding that can only be performed by real welders. These robot welders are basically doing menial type work. Something a real welder wouldn’t even consider doing. Welding junk iron in high school can in no way be compared to what a pipe welder or exotic metal welder does.
Wow, you’re really pushing a positive outlook for that scenario. IN reality society will likely resemble something closer to “The Purge” than anything else.
But I am probably being too bleak about it.
Wir sind die Roboter.
Just how much is a good welder worth that doesn’t bust xrays compared to a welder who always has repairs and rework results.
IDK.
I’ve worked in robotics and there is a lot of misinformation out there.
My favorite example of a robot is one that was the size of a forklift. Cost a quarter million.
It’s job was to move postage stamp sized pamphlets 2 feet...
Robots need more work.
Art will be eventually reduced to practice...
How are these people making disposable income?
I’m glad I’m in automation.
You’ve described a capital-intensive and technological society.
Indeed we are well on this path, so it can be seen already.
But you are missing some points. Given a natural tendency towards hierarchies, a huge activist government and its regulatory power creating winners and losers, and above all, printed, cheap money at very low rates for those closest to our central bank and government - and we are seeing some huge distortions.
With any luck, robots will be able to deliver basic nursing care at home by the time I need it.
Better that than some nurse’s aid from one of the Stans.
Up here, decent welder goes for 115-130/hr.
I wouldn’t want to do it. The ones that do welding for me at least get treated well. I don’t make them weld galvanized steel. The fumes they deal with already are bad enough.
“I believe we will live in a post-scarcity society in which people have time and their hands, and plenty of “stuff”.”
Sounds like trouble to me.
Where did you get those figures?
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