Chinese Company Replaces Humans With Robots, Production Skyrockets, Mistakes Disappear

Zero Hedge ^ | 08/01/2015 | Tyler Durden

[tacticalogic]

I will disagree on your size point, There are some who claim they are building 3D printed houses and structures of commercial building size, but as a rule in today’s production or manufacturing, the quantities only justify robotics unless the are very small in size items requiring high accuracy.

Perhaps I didn't word it very well, but I don't think we have a disagreement. This is the same point I attempted to make - the larger the pieces get, the more difficult/expensive it becomes to build the jigging necessary to keep them in the kind of alignment and exact positioning required for robotic welding.

[Sirius Lee]

I’d like it if significant numbers of humans were able to live off Earth,

Our best chance for a spare civilization in the event Earth gets wiped out is to build underground on Mars. Not enough protection from the atmosphere from radiation and meteorites, but apparently there is enough water trapped below make a go of it.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

There are a number of options for colonization off-Earth, especially given increased material wealth via robotics. I don’t think humanity would long survive the destruction of Earth without viable colonies in other solar systems, but occupying our system might buy time for someone to come up with the warp drive.

Anyway, I’m not trying to highjack the thread, and I have to get my yardwork done before it gets too hot, so I’ll bid you a pleasant Sunday.

[jonrick46]

A am afraid that computer driven machines will become so intelligent that they will take jobs away from humans in a big way. Many of those jobs will be manufacturing jobs. What automation can do now is quite spectacular. Wait until artificial intelligence makes its impact. Artificial intelligence will detect when a malfunction occurs and determine the necessary fix. Artificial intelligence will do things we cannot imagine and will do them faster than what humans can do. What jobs will be available for humans will be quite demanding. If you are a human, you will be required to do a job task better than a machine to make it worth the company’s money. Such jobs will be quite demanding and, as I have seen, will be rendered obsolete with the latest technology. Humans will compete with machines and some day, all manufacturing will be done only with machines. I am not sure if humans will even repair the machines that malfunction.

[Democrat_media]

same here.