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- Eikon89, on 07/09/2009, -1/+30Engineers FTW!
- shaunj66, on 07/09/2009, -0/+20That video was far more fun to watch than it should have been.
- irvin666, on 07/09/2009, -0/+11"Hello, my name is John Henry. I'm here for the job?"
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -0/+10Cool, ill remember that next time i need some sausages aligned.
- Nonyaz, on 07/09/2009, -0/+8Looks like a Rebranded Adept Quattro (or is it the otherway around?) http://www.adept.com/products/robots/parallel/quat ...
- RobotWolf, on 07/09/2009, -0/+8Because part of your mind is telling you this thing is not alive. And another part is observing the motion and telling you the opposite. This conflict bubbles up to your conscious mind as apprehension.
- ghatid, on 07/09/2009, -0/+7Oh no! Some of the pancakes didn't make it:(
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -0/+6word i want 2 no so plz txt me asap ttyl
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -0/+5How it's Made is a great show - always interesting to watch
- Perdido, on 07/09/2009, -1/+6Yes, make robots faster. That´s a good idea...
Have the movies taught us nothing? - diggB, on 07/09/2009, -1/+5I'd like to see it compete against this kid ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0YgrUKfTcA - 11familyguy11, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4Assembly line machines are always so cool. That fact is why How it's Made makes up a good portion of the used space on my external HDD.
- sAnDeTri, on 07/09/2009, -3/+7Why is this sooooo Scary
- jts10, on 07/09/2009, -1/+5yes.. because this "thing" created itself... and will maintain itself.
but it never chips in for other employees birthday cards/gifts... it's a douche! - HandsOfNod, on 07/09/2009, -0/+4Good, I'm not the only one that thought that. I feel slightly less weird now.
- techtock, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3"Looks like we'll have to let you go.
Doesn't it feel fulfilling to know
that you, the human being, are now obsolete,
and there's nothing in hell we'll let you do about it?!"
- Dead Kennedys "Soup is Good Food" - techtock, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3So, you're saying that robots aren't created to take the place of human workers allowing for higher productivity and to decrease labor costs? Sure, the very fact that these things exist certainly creates new jobs, but nowhere near the number they replace.
- duewydo, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3Because when Skynet becomes self aware, those sausages, muffins and pancakes will become deadly projectiles.
- nurbsenvi, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3It costs your mum.
- neoquietus, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3Also, humans get tired. A machine system like these can be designed to run 24/7 until the parts wear out, with no loss of accuracy or speed.
- v3rtex7740, on 07/09/2009, -0/+3It's not all that bad. Sure you don't need the people, but now the products are much cheaper, meaning overall standard of living goes up.
- PowderedToasty, on 07/09/2009, -1/+3Repent! The singularity is near!
- Foundation12, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2Agreed, that thing could be the grandpappy of legions of Terminator/Matrix/Cylon or any other number of evil robot hordes.
- endisnighe, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Yeah, but can they cash a paycheck and go to the store and purchase the products they produce? Just a simple question from the nut gallery.
- vizerei, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2The thing is, human's can be extremely fast. I've seen some line workers sort and move good at LOT faster than these robots...however they operate at slightly less precision.
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2there's a boy who's a lot faster than that.
- FLarsen, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2I guess the problem is your boring self you see reflected in the TV, try fixing that.
- Rantus, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2We have one of these setups at where I work. Everyone that sees it in action for the first time just laughs and stands there with a smile on their face. This is the kind of technology that we need to revive the manufacturing base. We need more and more of it to bring the costs down. We also have Ge Fanuc stuff as well. Equally impressive.
- v3rtex7740, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2you're fired robot # 3
- itanshi, on 07/09/2009, -0/+2It is not healthy to do what those bots do at that speed for hours. Bless those with those jobs, but people who made and upkeep those machines get paid ,too.
- brotherfranciz, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1These robots have OCD...
- FXNGLAS, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1Products are cheaper? I think companies are still charging the same if not more regardless if a human or a robot packed it.
- deadguysleeps, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1generic music... damn it...
- Drazzim12, on 07/09/2009, -1/+2If you have to ask...
- Paulish, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Yeah, the "hesitation" you see here and there on the part of the robots give them the feeling of humanness. Machines shouldn't hesitate.
- untreadatom, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1I hate Luddite! The word drives me crazy so I give you - Reification.
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1I want one.
- untreadatom, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1like scrubbing toilets!
- TheMagician2007, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1They're kinda creepy.
- seanmc303, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1That second video was taken in an IHop kitchen. I don't think them robits could feed me pancakes fast enough.
- themastersb, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1The robots are taking up all the mundane jobs so that we can focus on jobs that are much more important.
- Atario, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1This is the kind of awesome thing you see all the time when you watch "How It's Made".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_It%27s_Made - Klamath9, on 07/09/2009, -0/+1Luddite. Should we go back to weaving all cloth by hand as well? Think how many jobs that would create!
- inactive, on 07/09/2009, -0/+0Robots killed my brother :(
- Taiyoryu, on 07/09/2009, -1/+1Looks like the same technology you find in flight simulator platforms turned upside down.
- HonoredMule, on 07/09/2009, -1/+1No small wonder then what happened to American industrial superiority.
Be it manufacturing, digital media, e-commerce, or any other social, technical, or even political progression, living in the past instead of embracing the future only accomplishes death in the present. Top dogs in any industry, market, or political theater will always be married to the status quo, which in turn dooms them to being leapfrogged by what are currently less fortunate competitors.
Just look at the thriving indie music scene, piracy, or outsourced software and manufacturing. Only for outsourced software can it be credibly argued that the new method/product/etc. fail or did fail to outperform the old. I know some will contest that, claiming piracy hurts the output of the sources from which its leaching. I don't want to spark a pointless flame war or get sidetracked with writing a huge essay on that, which is why I only offer some anecdotal evidence to the contrary: of my top 5 favorite all-time movies, only 2 are from the last decade and even the top 20 would be mostly around 10 years old or more, with especially few from the last 5 years...and I'm under 30 with very little interest in the movies that predate me (i.e. 20+ years old). Of my top 25 favorite songs, not a single one comes from a big label or is more than 3 years old, and most of them are available for free or at least online and DRM-free. My personal experience, then, is that the movie industry failed /before/ piracy became a factor, and the music industry thrived anew in response to piracy, after having also failed prior to being affected by it.
It seems kind of silly looking back to when fear of a few lost or re-assigned jobs fomented the American populace through unions into sabotaging their own quality of life, economic strength, and industrial output. I wonder how long it will take people to recognize this same repeated victory of emotion over rationale as silly in each of the other battlefields...or if they ever will. - Restil, on 07/10/2009, -0/+0I don't know why, but I REALLY want a muffin right now.
- Restil, on 07/10/2009, -1/+0It doesn't matter how much it costs. It just has to cost less than the cost of employees to do the same amount of work over the same period of time.
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