Posted on 11/12/2021 2:11:56 PM PST by Maudeen
Factories and other industrial users ordered 29,000 robots, 37% more than during the same period last year, valued at $1.48 billion, according to data compiled by the industry group the Association for Advancing Automation. That surpassed the previous peak set in the same time period in 2017, before the global pandemic upended economies. The rush to add robots is part of a larger upswing in investment as companies seek to keep up with strong demand, which in some cases has contributed to shortages of key goods. At the same time, many firms have struggled to lure back workers displaced by the pandemic and view robots as an alternative to adding human muscle on their assembly lines.
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Now is a good time to invest in robots. There is a labor shortage.
Technology. How does it feel?
29,000 seems like a low number for global orders for robots. I would have expected it to be a lot higher, maybe 4X or 5X that number.
AI is joke, someone still has to program it.
GIGO
Robots will get us Thanksgiving Turkeys
In the end manufacturing robots will increase productivity and more work will be created and other areas. We have been adding robots to factories for decades now and there’s still people working jobs.
What we need to really be afraid of is EI tools that monitor, censor, and manipulate us. Big tech is a big offender here as well as their client governments.
There would not be if Gov stayed the hell out of the market
Get used to it. Advances in AI are an exponential curve like Moore’s”law.”
The rate of change accelerates.
The technology is neither good or bad. It’s what we do with it that counts.
frankly I prefer the human touch and I programed robots, repaired them too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uP9_PkW520
One thing that has concerned me ever since I saw the video below is, what’s going to happen when virtually every occupation, blue collar, gray collar or white collar, is replaced by robots and AI? How will people “feel” productive and earn a living. And to be clear, if people don’t feel productive, serious depression sets in, followed by all sorts of other problems.
We are in for some “interesting” times.
yeah, good luck, GIGO
Especially if you happen to be among the 2/3 (???) of the population that survives the Great Reset.
Wife and I had an experience yesterday, while shopping at a mall with new stores. Stopped to get a burger at "Creator Burger". A couple in front of us was being asked a bunch of questions by a worker as to what they wanted and how they wanted it.
Our turn: wife asked for the burger choice to be well-done. The worker explained can't do that, it is what it is. It'll be medium-well, no blood. Huh? He said the machine is set up one way, and that's what it does. So we ordered and said oh well.
Turns out that the entire cooking process is done by robots - no humans. The $6.50 burgers were extremely tasty, and would probably cost $10 to $12 elsewhere. Just don't ask the robots to change their software on the fly.
The NAPA warehouse down the street is fully automated. Go to the front desk, tell the person the make, model and year of your car, then the part you need. He types it in the computer and a robot retrieves the part from its appropriate place. The part is dropped on a conveyor and makes its way to the front desk.
There are about 3 or 4 employees walking around with iPads, inspecting machinery and sometimes repairing an item or two. The entire operation is probably run by five people. They likely are paid much better than someone who simply pulls and packs.
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