, took to the virtual stage on January 12th to launch BrightDrop. The carmaker’s new logistics division will peddle such unsexy things as delivery vans and autonomous electric pallets for use in warehouses . Hardly stuff to set pulses racing.
Fanuc has seen a surge in demand for material-handling equipment and “collaborative robots”, designed to interact with people. These “cobots” are particularly useful in e-commerce, which covid-19 has given a huge boost. The pandemic has, on one informed estimate, led consumer-goods firms to increase buffer stocks by around 5%. To counter this, firms are snapping up robots for use in warehouses, made by companies like GreyOrange and Kiva .
Stuart Harris of America’s Emerson, a big automation firm, says that “pervasive sensing”—which combinesand clever sensors—helped his company’s revenues from remote monitoring grow by 25% last year. Emerson’s clients range from a Singaporean chemicals factory to a Latin American mine. Peter Terwiesch of, a big Swiss-Swedish industrial-technology firm, also reports a boom in remote-operations systems, from marine vessels to paper mills.
Who is going to pay all the tax we need to run society if the jobs are taken from humans and given to robots?
New advances in technology at first cut away at jobs and soon after being about way more.
And how many robots if minimum wages set at US$20?
humans are indispansable, if robot are used for mass production in factories, like car making, shoes and or textile factiries, who will afford to drive or wear those soes and clothes if not employed to be earn and afford tnings.
And it will only accelerate faster. Immigrants are not going to take your jobs. Machines will amd conservatives are too stupid and racist to talk about it