Robotically...

 

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Soon available for the home workshop direct from China.

1 hour ago, Gene Howe said:

Soon available for the home workshop direct from China.

they'll steal and sell it but never use it..

Edited June 13, 20188 yr by Stick486

China is working on the variable 9-13 ply plywood, depending on where you look.  Loose fiber plies included.

I just looked at a piece of ply and was wondering how in the world they made such a perfect plug. NOW I KNOW

Magnamax H2O. What is it and where is it sold? New to me.

That article should be required reading for all middle school students.  Four semi-skilled workers replaced by robots and two computer operators.  Those four jobs will not "come back", they haven't been exported or off shored, they have just disappeared.  Been going on for 50 years and will keep on keeping on.

Read an article a while ago about burger flipper's jobs being roboticized. Pretty soon, a humanities degree won't be worth squat.

55 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

 Pretty soon, a humanities degree won't be worth squat.

H-degree is worth anything now?  Hunh.  I have typical engineer's attitude toward the courses I took to keep my GPA above water.  Of course my daughter got a degree in art history.  But then she makes more than I do.  And she's part time.  I've found few careers where the degree really made the career.  Some careers are carefully crafted to eliminate those w/out degree (medicine), but the degree seldom guarantees competency. 

 

Someone builds and maintains robots, but it's usually not the poor shlub who got replaced by the robot.  OTOH, what we're seeing isn't at all new (try finding a buggy whip), but the velocity of it is stunning.  The I-phone is only 11 years old.  Happy Birthday, job killer!

28 minutes ago, PeteM said:

H-degree is worth anything now?  Hunh.  I have typical engineer's attitude toward the courses I took to keep my GPA above water. 

Those underwater basket weaving courses certainly helped my GPA, too. 

One of our boys earned an MBA while in the AF. He's now working as a robot technician at a salary likely far exceeding what he'd make if he utilized his degree. His brother took some courses in diesel mechanics and, ain't doing too shabby, either. Both earn more than either my wife or I ever did with our MS degrees. But, neither one can make an M&T joint.

 

Edited June 14, 20188 yr by Gene Howe

Personally, I'd rather be programming a robot that doing the same boring plug filling thing every day.   Art History, huh?  Click and Clack you to joke about that.   But I had two art history classes, I think I took them because they did not require writing essays, that I hated and was never very good at.

Keith, he doesn't program. He fixes them. 

We have a tool place 30 mile from my home that sells BIG dollar 

tools called Hermance. I got to watch a robotic machine somewhat

like the above machine making cabinet fronts. wow was it fast.

If you ever get to the Williamsport Pa. area you need to check

them out.