bbc.com
How do you feel about this?
It's supposedly so precise in motion, it can assemble iPhones from start to finish.
Foxconn is selling its robots to other (mostly Chinese) manufacturers, and they're buying them at the a rate of 20,000/yr.
The U.S. has only 26,000 in total.
they absolutely must not adapt these
just think of the poor workers
what will they do after suicide net installation is no longer in demand?
Any reason why Apple can't buy these and open a US plant?
Electricity is subsidized in China.
Foxconn doesn't give a F U C K
those chinese motherfuckers are RUTHLESS.
They remind me of the jews that profitted from World War II
I find it hilarious that employer threaten workers that they will use robots,but even Chink wageslaves are to be replaced.
Look forward to the day when production moves back to USA and Euro using machines like these.
Electricity is cheaper in China.
It will never move back "on shore."
Looking forward to the day robots do the work and all humans can embrace the glorious NEET master race lifestyle.
Electricity isn't the only factor
>Washington post
Lmao people actually read this crap ?
Remember when the world laughed at the notion China might be able to make their own high-end electronic components?
Now they are fabbing their own high-end smartphone processors from design to packaging.
They have the scale and momentum, and it's only a few years before established players in manufacturing robotics like ABB are BTFO by the likes of Foxconn.
Also, that WaPo article counts robots bought from Foxconn as being from foreign supplier (Foxconn is domiciled in Taiwan but all of their business is in Mainland China).
How do I invest in robots?
>what will they do after suicide net installation is no longer in demand?
Suicide I suppose
skynet.com/partners
You can't.
Most robotics firms are either privately-owned or is part of a massive engineering conglomerate where they account for less than 10% of the whole company. You'd have 90% of your investment end up in unrelated stuffs like healthcare machineries and diesel turbines.
The robutts will form a union and go on strike
I find it awesome and terrifying at the same time
I hope, I really hope there is some ideology left in the CN govt, otherwise the chinese people, and probably everyone else too, are completely fucked
Apple isn't as ruthless as uncle terry
>Terry smiles after buying Sharp for less than candy crush saga (HALF of the agreed price after crashing their stock)
What is his end game?
it's fascinating that the chinese industrial sector has so many workers available at such a bullshit cheap cost, and they actively choose the more expensive option of robot labor
inb4
>robot labor is cheaper
no, it really isn't.
the servos and software and maintenance all account for a much larger operational expense than the average suicidal chinese factory worker
what's even more fascinating is that >if< trump wins, he will make every effort to reintegrate the chinese labor force into the american economy by the end of his reign. the result will be that we will have even cheaper everything. if his political strategy succeeds, the american populous will be keeping more money they earn, while spending less on frivolous items like phones and goodies. thusly making the average american feel richer.
it's truly astounding that so many people are in favor of that umpa lumpa fuck, but we'll see how things go. china really is a garbage nation in terms of production quality, but maybe trump's vision of 'cheaper everything' will be beneficial. we'll see, i guess
>implying chinese workers won't start working faster than any robot could
>implying chinese autism won't put robot factories in bankruptcy
No, robots hardware is getting cheaper and robot calibration is becoming faster due to machine learning being actively implemented.
You are missing the point. China has built themselves to the point that they are in a similar situation Detroit was many yaers ago, that is, paying imbeciles huge sums of money to do what used to be cheap labor. There's no longer an advantage to outsourcing to China.
There isn't a massive untapped pool of unskilled labor waiting to be exploited anymore.
Manufacturing can't move away from China en masse like it did from the West to China because poo-in-loos can't follow simple instructions unlike the Chinese and their electricity grid goes down for hours every day.
Then we can get swallowed in depression.
I already have a head start.
I think the point is that the massive untapped pool of labor is now AUTOMATED labor, in the form of advanced machines. It's the same principle except instead of moving the jobs somewhere else, they're gone forever.
The WaPo article's point is that this new paradigm will create SOME jobs, which are highly skilled positions that have to be filled by properly educated and trained individuals, a resource China lacks when compared to the West. So multinational corporations, in the future, will not only not be incentivized to move to China, but even if they're already there, they might be enticed to move some jobs BACK.
The thing with technology is that you can send data anywhere, so the production companies stay in China while the skilled workers will probably build an HQ in someplace like California.
(sounds familiar)
Pretty sure shipping is more expensive than electricity.
Are you agreeing or disagreeing with me? Because that's basically what I meant, the people being hired will be from the west. Where the company is incorporated probably won't change.
>There isn't a massive untapped pool of unskilled labor waiting to be exploited anymore.
Right,that's where automation comes in. The jobs /work returns to the U.S. where we have the resources and the infrastructure to support efficiency.Even if you replace every Chinese laborer with an American robot on our soil, there will still be jobs for humans created.
>the servos and software and maintenance all account for a much larger operational expense than the average suicidal chinese factory worker
>Trump will somehow manage to make production cheaper in the US than it is currently in China without automation
i cant wait until the chinese take over and robots do all the work.
A Trump victory would mean tariffs on our competition, including China. The extra cost would be passed to consumers. It's a shitty plan designed to try and fuck over foreign competition that in reality will only hurt the little man. Because global corps don't give a fuck about nations or their laws and are designed to put profit first.
Removing all of the laborers and replacing them with robots will likely crash the Chinese economy.
>The thing with technology is that you can send data anywhere
Yeah, you can but... Let me explain what happened to a company I worked for. We set up two plants in Mexico and Brazil. Neither of which had any semblence of technically skilled labor or decent utilities like roads, water, etc. We ended up eating insane shipping costs for repair pairs and supplies, the equipment was destroyed within very little time due to incompetence, our customers orders were often missed or late, and our technicians and engineers were now forced to be in nearly round the clock confrences with the new branches. This is just a small part of the ugly side of outsourcing to third world shitters. "Move to China" was the worst meme ever, in terms of business sense.
doubt it
As someone who works with robotics, your standard 6 axis (traditional "arm" looking robutt) is nearly bullet proof these days. The servo motors and joints, if well manufactured, will last years of continuous operation before any major maintenance is needed.
The main advantage they have over a meat based workforce is that they can operate 24/7, can perform repeat actions quickly and at near perfect accuracy and maintain QC.
Whatever happened to that guy on /diy/ with his six axis sexbot
Did he impale himself with a dildo or something?
He probably works for NSA now.
those servo motors are HUEG! Just look at how big they are compared to the a Yasakawa motoman robot cooking stuff.
+- 0.02 mm is nothing special. Although if it is really that accurate, it is. Industrial robots are typically very precise, but not accurate. If they are accurate like that, that's a big fucking deal.
>>The U.S. has only 26,000 in total.
Yeah, cause the Japanese, Germans, and Swiss decided they were gonna dominate the industrial robot market leaving the US in the dust. Like their governments gave big bucks to robot companies.
There's a higher chance of them implementing the true socialist dream, the Basic Income.
slave labor btfo
fuck chinks.
stupid japs for selling.
it's like they remembered about nanking.
new game any good?
It's only a matter of time till basic income becomes a worldwide thing.
Automation cannot exist with people living on nothing and automation is spreading like a wildfire.
Things are going to look very different in just few short years.
We're going to see some insane layoffs in the very near future.
The Chinese ones have more skill