Can this robot replace foreign workers in Singapore.

[neddy]

Meet Baxtor, the new gen US$22k robot that can do work which previously robots cannot do. Baxtor is able to do very sophisticated high-value added assembly previously done by cheap chinese labour.

The advent of truly sophisticated and relatively cheap industrial robotics and automation technology is beginning to change the global economic landscape. The fear in China is that the Lewis Turning Point, the point where rural labourers moving to urban manufacturing loses its value, is being accelerated by the mass adoption of industrial robotics that reduce the value and efficiency of new human labour.

Even Foxconn is targeting 300,000 robots in its production line by 2014. The big point is that this manufacturing can now be done elsewhere, eg Singapore, and not China.

China is now unfriendly to neighouring countries, and manufacturers are scared of possible supply chain disruption due to conflicts with Japan and other neighouring counties.

Singapore should seize the opportunities of robotic labor and bring back manufacturing, and reduce reliant on foreign workers.


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What do you think?

 

[jw5]

There's someone he can definitely replace, and I haven't even watched the video.

 

[neddy]

See this IEEE news.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/industrial-robots/rethink-robotics-baxter-robot-factory-worker#

Very user-friendly

Baxter doesn’t rely on custom programming to perform new tasks. Once it’s wheeled into place and plugged into an ordinary power outlet, a person with no robotics experience can program a new task simply by moving Baxter’s arms around and following prompts on its user-friendly interface (which doubles as the robot’s face).