Why Learn Industrial Robots?
Channel: AndOrNot
Date: 23/05/2019

This first episode is to create interest for the series.
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It might not be a suprice to you that robots are doing more and more of the manual labor we humans have done before in our society. If I have to say it myself you need to understand the robots to understand the world we live in. I listen to The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast where he interviewed Andrew Yang who had this to say about robots taking our jobs;

"Well what I say to people Joe, I say: have you noticed stores closing in your Main Street? And then they say yes, and then I asked them: Why is that? Then they reflect like for a minute and then they say: Amazon! And I'm like yeah that's right. Amazon is getting 20 billion dollars of Commerce every year and is now tipping your malls and Main Street stores into Oblivion. Is that going to get better or worse? Cuz some people say: How the robots? The robots are years away. And then you're like no! It's not robots actually walking around your neighborhood. I mean, of course that's unlikely. But Amazon soaking up the business that used to go to your mall. If you go to their fulfillment center, it's robots as far as the eye can see, if you go to their warehouse, it's also robots as far as the eye can see."

While robots taking jobs is a fact. It can be hard to wrap your mind around how we are going to approach this. Your reaction might be that you want to learn learn how to use robots. I mean they need to be operated, they need to be programmed and someone needs to keep watch on them. But it might not be the full sulution. Andrew Yang said this about the approach to learn robots;

"I looked into the data as to how good we were at retraining let's say displaced manufacturing workers in the midwest when we started decimating their jobs. And we're terrible at it. According to independent studies government-funded retraining programs had a success rate of between 0 and 15% in real life. Like this is what actually happend to the workers of Michigan and Indiana and Ohio. So if you say that we're going to retrain these people than you also have to come up with a way for us to become amazing at something that right now, we're really really bad at."

While learning robots will not solve the problem with automation. It will give you an edge when it comes down to the wire and I will try to give you some knowledge that you could use in the future.

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