Add this to the litany of “robots will soon replace American workers” posts.
Every single robotic device I have seen introduced requires a veritable army of human workers to run them, build them, program them, maintain them, install them, correct them when they screw up, fix them when they break, clean them, etc, etc. Robots are the ultimate human worker guarantee.
run them- probably one or two engineers behind glass
build them- overseas
program them- h1b visa holders
maintain them- overseas contractors
install them- overseas contractors
correct them when they screw up- overseas contractors
fix them when they break- overseas contractors
clean them- minimum wage?
Have you seen the masonry robot I’ve posted several times? Can’t link from this computer, but it’s easy to find.
A million plus per unit,can only build curtain walls,needs a full time programmer, laborer to stock it, a mixer, a guy to clean it, men to set the tracks and take them apart, a guy to strike the joints and it can’t work in any weather other than perfect. Then it’s all set up and it blows a chip or encounters a registry error or a software update failure, whatever ans you’ve got a million dollar, fully staffed roadblock.
The day may come, but it’s so far off in the future as to be meaningless and the average level of intelligence required to conceptualize, design, build and program them slowly shrinks. AND now there’s no masons left to do the jobs that it can’t.
I’ve seen the masonry robot. Another that I’ve seen is the 3-D printing (in concrete) robot machine (Chinese, I think) that can “print” staircases and railing. It requires the same parameters; the ‘hands-on-staff’ and set-up personnel.
The first robots I remember were retrofitted designs of manual machines. Data storage was magnetic wire, then magnetic tape, paper tape (optically read), then floppy disc, etc. It’s probably stored in a cloud today.
Logic was on a circuit board, mostly soldered in, then circuit boards with wire wrap, then TTL (5V dedicated), then CMOS, then surface-mount. It’s probably fiber cable routed today.
We used to use slide rules and later Texas Instrument calculators (because of the trig. and log functions).
All programming and set-ups we performed in-house, as was most of the maintenance.
That was about 40 years ago.
Almost all of that is gone with the wind now.
From what I read and the guys I talk to, the automation was/is superior. It will run 24 hrs./day, better quality and faster. But, it seems most of industry has been chased out of the country.
Overpriced labor, loss of work ethic, loss of skills and a NIMBY attitude. The list could be quite long.
I’m not proposing a Luddite’s solution, just explaining that the loss of the mason is not so far off in the future.
musket
October 9, 2018 12:18 pm
Designed by a committee and built by a least cost team of minimum wage professional laborers…….
Disparity Flux
October 9, 2018 1:00 pm
Obviously the robot truck detected that the refuse bin did not meet its operational parameters and was collected for recalibration at the refuse center. Had the Tesla truck malfunctioned, it would have burst into flames.
Correction. Had the Tesla truck malfunctioned, it would have first driven itself into a retirement home and then burst into flames.
You’re welcome.
Trapped in Portlandia
October 9, 2018 1:53 pm
I wonder if it ever occurred to the government worker driving the truck to get his fat ass off out of the truck and adjust the trash can so the arm could pick it up?
Dayum! I love it! I got the trash and the can too! Woo hoo! My wife works for Republic Services and I show this vid to her. She said even the trucks that have a human operator experiences the can falling into the hopper. However, the driver will remove the can unlike the Teslop truck.
Add this to the litany of “robots will soon replace American workers” posts.
Every single robotic device I have seen introduced requires a veritable army of human workers to run them, build them, program them, maintain them, install them, correct them when they screw up, fix them when they break, clean them, etc, etc. Robots are the ultimate human worker guarantee.
“a veritable army of human workers…”
run them- probably one or two engineers behind glass
build them- overseas
program them- h1b visa holders
maintain them- overseas contractors
install them- overseas contractors
correct them when they screw up- overseas contractors
fix them when they break- overseas contractors
clean them- minimum wage?
Pretty much the same as large machine tools.
Top 21 Industrial Robotics Companies in the World 2018
https://www.technavio.com/blog/top-21-companies-in-the-industrial-robotics-market
Have you seen the masonry robot I’ve posted several times? Can’t link from this computer, but it’s easy to find.
A million plus per unit,can only build curtain walls,needs a full time programmer, laborer to stock it, a mixer, a guy to clean it, men to set the tracks and take them apart, a guy to strike the joints and it can’t work in any weather other than perfect. Then it’s all set up and it blows a chip or encounters a registry error or a software update failure, whatever ans you’ve got a million dollar, fully staffed roadblock.
The day may come, but it’s so far off in the future as to be meaningless and the average level of intelligence required to conceptualize, design, build and program them slowly shrinks. AND now there’s no masons left to do the jobs that it can’t.
Brilliant.
I’ve seen the masonry robot. Another that I’ve seen is the 3-D printing (in concrete) robot machine (Chinese, I think) that can “print” staircases and railing. It requires the same parameters; the ‘hands-on-staff’ and set-up personnel.
The first robots I remember were retrofitted designs of manual machines. Data storage was magnetic wire, then magnetic tape, paper tape (optically read), then floppy disc, etc. It’s probably stored in a cloud today.
Logic was on a circuit board, mostly soldered in, then circuit boards with wire wrap, then TTL (5V dedicated), then CMOS, then surface-mount. It’s probably fiber cable routed today.
We used to use slide rules and later Texas Instrument calculators (because of the trig. and log functions).
All programming and set-ups we performed in-house, as was most of the maintenance.
That was about 40 years ago.
Almost all of that is gone with the wind now.
From what I read and the guys I talk to, the automation was/is superior. It will run 24 hrs./day, better quality and faster. But, it seems most of industry has been chased out of the country.
Overpriced labor, loss of work ethic, loss of skills and a NIMBY attitude. The list could be quite long.
I’m not proposing a Luddite’s solution, just explaining that the loss of the mason is not so far off in the future.
Designed by a committee and built by a least cost team of minimum wage professional laborers…….
Obviously the robot truck detected that the refuse bin did not meet its operational parameters and was collected for recalibration at the refuse center. Had the Tesla truck malfunctioned, it would have burst into flames.
Correction. Had the Tesla truck malfunctioned, it would have first driven itself into a retirement home and then burst into flames.
You’re welcome.
I wonder if it ever occurred to the government worker driving the truck to get his fat ass off out of the truck and adjust the trash can so the arm could pick it up?
The Tesla warranty…
Buy the fucking dip. Or forever hold your peace
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Dayum! I love it! I got the trash and the can too! Woo hoo! My wife works for Republic Services and I show this vid to her. She said even the trucks that have a human operator experiences the can falling into the hopper. However, the driver will remove the can unlike the Teslop truck.