Hi, it’s me, your neighborhood robotics business guy, to inform you that if robots were actually ready to automate a process at scale, they would likely already be deployed
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Chris Rugaber
Fascinating interview with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on @cnbc.com this morning: He said that US manufacturers can use robots to offset the low wages paid in other countries, enabling the return of more production to the US, and Americans can get jobs building and maintaining the robots.
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As another example, from a WSJ editorial the last time trump tried this, a factory that produced 500,000 tons of steel a year with 1,000 employees in the 1960s can down do that with 14 people.
$7.50/hr?
Rest assured, when the technology reaches that benchmark, large companies will consist of only the top of the org chart.
McDonald's is automated a shitton despite requiring a lot of workers. Starbucks espresso machines do lots of the work.
The idea that there's room for some large scale mechanization of American industry, like we're the Soviets in the 30s or China in the 70s, is incredibly ignorant.