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Shankapotomus

(4,840 posts) Fri Oct 19, 2012, 08:01 AM Oct 2012

Using robots to try and save US jobs

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Also here covered by reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/10/17/baxter-the-robot-readied-for-us-factory?videoId=238493729&videoChannel=5

Rethink Robotics:

http://www.rethinkrobotics.com/index.php/solutions/

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Using robots to try and save US jobs (Original Post) Shankapotomus Oct 2012 OP

No!!! We'd only be asking for this! longship Oct 2012 #1

I, for one, will welcome our new robot overlords Shankapotomus Oct 2012 #2

Well, as long as they're three laws safe. longship Oct 2012 #3

yes.. AsahinaKimi Oct 2012 #4

longship

(40,416 posts)

1. No!!! We'd only be asking for this!

Reply to Shankapotomus (Original post)

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 08:12 AM

Oct 2012

Or this:

The evidence from science fiction is overwhelming.

Shankapotomus

(4,840 posts)

2. I, for one, will welcome our new robot overlords

Reply to longship (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 08:23 AM

Oct 2012

Let technology put everyone out of work then, when acquiring resources costs next to nothing, we slowly introduce a society based on free distribution of those resources.