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Is industrial automation finally beating out cheap labor?

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Robots-infiltrate-Foxconn/07ab46653e4f447e82afa109000af636#07ab46653e4f447e82afa109000af636 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:39:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Robots-infiltrate-Foxconn/07ab46653e4f447e82afa109000af636#07ab46653e4f447e82afa109000af636 Bass 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Bass/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Robots taking Chinese jerbs When robots start building other robots and computer programs start writing other computer programs, I'd start to worry. Oh, wait...

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Nah, the future is actually print the component on top of each other. Robot is outdated. 3D Printing is the future.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Robots-infiltrate-Foxconn/9a12b6e4b5d2499fa823a1090094f534#9a12b6e4b5d2499fa823a1090094f534 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:02:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Robots-infiltrate-Foxconn/9a12b6e4b5d2499fa823a1090094f534#9a12b6e4b5d2499fa823a1090094f534 Maddus Mattus 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/Maddus Mattus/Discussions/RSS Coffeehouse - Robots taking Chinese jerbs I wonder, longer term, whether this will eliminate the advantage of manufacturing in countries like China simply because labour is cheap? Could manufacturing even become more evenely distributed across the world to reduce distribution costs to a globalised customer base?

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, Bass wrote

http://singularityhub.com/2012/11/12/1-million-robots-to-replace-1-million-human-jobs-at-foxconn-first-robots-have-arrived/

Is industrial automation finally beating out cheap labor?

No, but robots don't jump off rooftops and out windows at FoxxConn, either... the cost in netting may fully offset the difference, though...

Tongue Out

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, JohnAskew wrote

*snip*

No, but robots don't jump off rooftops and out windows at FoxxConn, either...

Give them a few years...

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, GoddersUK wrote

I wonder, longer term, whether this will eliminate the advantage of manufacturing in countries like China simply because labour is cheap? Could manufacturing even become more evenely distributed across the world to reduce distribution costs to a globalised customer base?

That's excellent. I'd say you're looking at good common sense... even a plan.

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, GoddersUK wrote

I wonder, longer term, whether this will eliminate the advantage of manufacturing in countries like China simply because labour is cheap? Could manufacturing even become more evenely distributed across the world to reduce distribution costs to a globalised customer base?

Until robots start building other robots, those robots will still be manufactured in Asia.

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