ABB Robotics - Picking pancakes

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-10 1. tomas commented 14 years ago

Hahaha, had that one in youtube fav's allready!
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-15 2. BabyJLE commented 14 years ago

-_-
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-11 3. LightAng3l commented 14 years ago

Yeeey ! More people loosing their jobs ! And we wonder why we are in this financial crisis.

Robots > no jobs > no money to buy the product the robots make

Think about it: you make your product...and you can't sell it because people don't have money to buy it....because they don't have jobs....because you replaced them with robots... so you can make your product.
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+9 4. CrAzYZiR0 commented 14 years ago

Let's see you guys make a pancake picking robot(functional)?

Anyway, Smart robot with some nice specs :)
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+6 5. Tabur commented 14 years ago

Amazing... I absolutely LOVED this video because im studying Engineering (Civil + Electric) so this is the kind of thing we look forward to make in the future, even though it seems impossible as of now :D
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+9 6. Pierrick commented 14 years ago

#3 ...or maybe nobody got dismissed, and if they increase their productivity is probably the best way to create new job opportunities in a LOT of different sectors.
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+2 7. kainim commented 14 years ago

shush mister, i want to hear the music!!!
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+1 8. NathaneM commented 14 years ago

#3 that's the sad reality. almost all jobs available nowadays are slowly being replaced with automation. Time will come humans stop making babies, as robots will do that part too... >:)
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+3 9. Chrisofskjern commented 14 years ago

AllYourPancakesAreBelongToMe... HumansAreExpendable...
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+2 10. wellczech commented 14 years ago

#3 on the other hand, there is a need to have engineering specialist who creates the robot
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+1 11. modder8her commented 14 years ago

#3 - If that's true, then why have robots not take over all the jobs already? More productivity means more profits. This leads to increased GDP. High GDP means lower unemployment. The immediate effects of robots replacing people are short-lived. Pancake stackers go back to school, then become more productive through better training, then help the GDP to go up even more.
Hasta la vista, unemployment!
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0 12. MenelecJoe commented 14 years ago

i want the technical specs of the"pancake buffer" ... i think we could all benefit from one of these in day to day life. thats as long as we dont get a buffer overflow from corrupt pancakes, that would be a shame.
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+4 13. ktg_5 commented 14 years ago

#3 someone have to build and design the robots, and i've bet there have been more designers, builders and overall employees from the company to macth the few guys who sorted these pancakes!
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+1 14. Trooper commented 14 years ago

What strikes me is mentioning "Reduce labor cost" and "improved health and safety" in the same sentence... I guess getting rid of more employees will indeed reduce the number of work related accidents... l-o-l

Also, I hope someone thought of fixing the "buffer shelf" time to less than a month. "I've got 6 pancaked in my box and one of them is green"...
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0 15. croclacrimae commented 14 years ago

That robot stole someone's job. It's like Matrix.
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+1 16. Dokandre commented 14 years ago

machines can't replace every single job, what they can do is the repetitive, "allways the same movement" jobs, like packaging stuff. now a manager or a cientist being replaced by a machine is quite impossible, at least for now
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0 17. Chrisofskjern commented 14 years ago

Machines cant replace every single job?

Say that again in 50 years
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+4 18. eNdEmiOn06463 commented 14 years ago

Pre-baked pancakes just makes no sense.
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+4 19. RaveKING commented 14 years ago

Ok, all those claiming the robot is stealing jobs are correct! That robot stole probably 3-4 jobs in that factory.

*RANT BEGIN* Now let's take a quick guess how many jobs it took to support the production of that robot? Let's see, engineers, marketing guys, secretaries, quality control, programmers, machinists, and on and on. All probably higher paying jobs than pancake stackers, right?! If the theory that robots taking jobs is bad, then ANY machine created by man that boosted productivity is bad.

So be my guest, if you'd like to live in pre-industrial revolution times and farm your land by hand go right ahead. But you better get off your computer and quit watching snotr first, because let's face it, robots (aka machines!), are making the electricity you're using right now! *RANT OVER* RaveKING out. Peace. 8-)

PS Did I mention my Raver brothers and I love the techno!? RIP brothers.
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-3 20. richardhalo commented 14 years ago

#3 He's got a point. So leave him out of your lame thumbs down, you noobs!
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+1 21. RaveKING commented 14 years ago

#20 see #19
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0 22. Steelhunky commented 14 years ago

I noticed they weren't wearing anything on their hands.
No protection. Jewelry is a no-no too!
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-1 23. esoteric commented 14 years ago

the guy doesnt know how to pronounce 'distributed' @2:27. :)
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0 24. SpikedSilver commented 14 years ago

wow abb commercials. so fun and intresting :|
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0 25. odthegreatest commented 14 years ago

can't be more useless
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0 26. c0mmanderKeen commented 14 years ago

Terminator 4 - Rise of the Flex Pickers
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0 27. Zebedee commented 14 years ago

#3 Don't be a Luddite.
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0 28. angrytattedguy commented 14 years ago

Fat people rejoice now your ass can get bigger.
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0 29. MinWang commented 14 years ago

...and thus GLaDOS was born... [bzzzzzzzzzzt]

THE PANCAKE IS A LIE