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Showing posts with label Rethink Robotics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rethink Robotics. Show all posts
In the original Lost in Space, the robot would
scream “Danger Will Robinson!” when trouble abounded close to Will, the young
boy of the crew. But what if the robot was yelling at a different kind of
futuristic danger? A future where manufacturing world would need no human
manufacturers? Introducing from Rethink Robotics, a robot manufacturing that
has created a human like substitute, Baxter.
This new robot threat is just like Terminator,
only instead of eliminating the human race it is eliminating jobs. Baxter is
made to increase productivity and make America more competitive with
manufacturing giants like China. The price of this robot will only be 22,000$
American dollars. This cost will far undermine the American worker (your
average American worker will make around that much a year). Baxter is made with
75 percent American parts and is very easy to program. This is said to “unleash
a revolution in manufacturing with a friendly faced factory robot” from IEEE Spectrum article. What? This robot
can not only multitask but expresses emotions. These emotions are programed to
add feedback.
How will this affect the hardworking? When will they create a robot that can do everything a human can do minus the added cost? Danger Will Robinson, your job is not safe!
