Hmm, Not Sure What to Think About This One

[Davin]

Everything looks good except the actual handling of goods.

[Biggus Dickus]

Everything looks good except the actual handling of goods.

Haha, I thought the same...probably would need to design a tote specific for the robot to handle, seems like the one thing they overlooked.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

At some point only highly educated/trained/talented people will have anything to do, and they will control everything.  We won't need unskilled or low-skilled labor.

[Dave]

I was not sure about a 100lb load in that crate, looked like plastic. Would such a lattice crate take that weight without distorting?

But, still gotta admit I am impressed with the balance acheived,

[Biggus Dickus]

At some point only highly educated/trained/talented people will have anything to do, and they will control everything.  We won't need unskilled or low-skilled labor.

Awesome opportunity right here for an excellent lawyer joke, but I promised to be nice during lent.

[Dave]

At some point only highly educated/trained/talented people will have anything to do, and they will control everything.  We won't need unskilled or low-skilled labor.

For the moment the Chinese have enough people to keep occupied it is not worth their while going fully auto. After making enquiries about the spec of a device I was offered it up to quantities of 10 000 per month, with a one month lead and 75% discount for that quantity. I did a little research into the company, they emploedy up to 20 000 people, in huge dormitories for the country kids flocking to town for work, on their main manufacturing site. With special features to reduce the suicide incidence.

That was some years ago, wonder if it has changed.

Edit: I conflated two stories, the suicide one was at Foxconn, then Apple's manufacturer of choice.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

At some point only highly educated/trained/talented people will have anything to do, and they will control everything.  We won't need unskilled or low-skilled labor.

Awesome opportunity right here for an excellent lawyer joke, but I promised to be nice during lent.

I absolve thee of all sin, therefore you may state your joke, my son. 

[Icarus]

I am reading Velmas description of her facility and its level of automation. Then I am thinking....buzz whirr, buzz, whirr, and I see political overtones. Our new Prez is going to bring back jobs, Right.  A principle reason for job loss is automation.  Which makes me think of the Luddites that destroyed machinery that took their jobs....buzz, whirr....etc. 

[Dave]

I am reading Velmas description of her facility and its level of automation. Then I am thinking....buzz whirr, buzz, whirr, and I see political overtones. Our new Prez is going to bring back jobs, Right.  A principle reason for job loss is automation.  Which makes me think of the Luddites that destroyed machinery that took their jobs....buzz, whirr....etc.

Not to mention the French saboteurs who committed sabotage, put the boot in, by chucking their sabots into the machinery to clog it up...

Now they will just hack it, imagine a factory full of "insane" robots!

[Arturo]

Bring back the jobs and give them to robots herp derp.

[Davin]

American Conservatives are trying to stand rigid against a changing world. That makes us fragile, not strong. If they really wanted to support American jobs, they'd spend money to educate the people and to support the sciences.

[Biggus Dickus]

At some point only highly educated/trained/talented people will have anything to do, and they will control everything.  We won't need unskilled or low-skilled labor.

Awesome opportunity right here for an excellent lawyer joke, but I promised to be nice during lent.

I absolve thee of all sin, therefore you may state your joke, my son.

Thank you for absolution, but it won't be as funny now as the window of spontaneity has been shut, however. I will keep this for use a a later date, sort of a "Get Out of Jail Free" card.

[Arturo]

American Conservatives are trying to stand rigid against a changing world. That makes us fragile, not strong. If they really wanted to support American jobs, they'd spend money to educate the people and to support the sciences.

If they get a big enough pay check, they will do what ever their corporate masters want and promise (lie) to give what their voters tell them to do.

[Lark]

Thinking about jobs for people  .....  When the Industrial Revolution occurred and mechinisation in all fields began and jobs disappeared it was hard to see what people would find to do.  Everything advanced and jobs appeared though of a different sort.  Maybe when robots  take over it will be the same  ??????

[Dave]

Thinking about jobs for people  .....  When the Industrial Revolution occurred and mechinisation in all fields began and jobs disappeared it was hard to see what people would find to do.  Everything advanced and jobs appeared though of a different sort.  Maybe when robots  take over it will be the same  ??????

Seems it may be that the trend is still that way:

Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data

The trick is to give the kids the skills and knowledge they will need tomorrow, not those of yesterday. But I fear that there is far to much "traditional" teaching going on.

Though, reading the article more carefully, it seens that we might be getting into tge same problem as the Golfafrinchabs:

The Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B was a way of removing the basically useless citizens from the planet of Golgafrincham. A variety of stories were formed about the doom of the planet, such as blowing up, crashing into the sun or being eaten by a mutant stargoat. The ship was filled with all the middlemen of Golgafrincham, such as the telephone sanitisers, account executives, hair dressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives and management consultants.

Ark Fleet ships A and C  were supposed to carry the people who ruled, thought, or actually did useful work.

The ship was programmed to crash onto its designated planet, Earth. The captain remember [sic ]that he was told a good reason for this, but had forgotten it, although the reason was later revealed to be because the Ark Ship B Golgafrinchans were a 'bunch of useless idiots'.