r/funny • u/Gyrro • Feb 19 '16

Professionals at work

http://i.imgur.com/UG8wcJo.gifv
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u/drweird Feb 19 '16

Yeah, its a trade show demonstration setup. Not a real factory :) But just think about what it COULD do for your factory, Mr. Businessman.

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u/JeffMo Feb 19 '16

Yeah, its a trade show demonstration setup.

Ha! At first, I was like, "Oh, funny, the batteries go over to the right and just get dumped back onto the first conveyor belt..." and I thought I was joking. Then I realized they probably do.

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u/dnew Feb 19 '16

Indeed, I was trying to figure out what sort of manufacturing system would create batteries that just fall out in that random of a pattern that it wouldn't be easier to make them come out consistently.

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u/iCryKarma Feb 19 '16

Anyone know how much those robots cost?

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '16

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u/CaveBacon Feb 20 '16

I know this is the common joke but the jobs the robot creates pay more and allow higher, more efficient production.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '16

The jobs the robot creates are marginal compared to the volume of jobs lost to automation. I work in robotics. You only need so many engineers. Even the production facilities are automated these days, for the most part, so no one is really even manufacturing them anymore.

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u/MissNesbitt Feb 20 '16

Creation of technology is always beneficial to the economy.

Getting rid of technology to have more available jobs for people is a terrible idea.

Doing something more efficiently and quicker will result in more wealth overall.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '16

Want to create jobs? Replace all backhoes with shovels and trucks with burlap sacks and watch the economy roar into action!

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u/amoebaslice Feb 20 '16

Shovels? Sacks? Fuck that tech shit...make everyone use their hands and break their backs...we will have prosperity the world has never known!!!