ATW #2221 – Robots Will Not Gut Manufacturing Jobs
June 28th, 2018 at 4:00pm
Internet Premiere: Thursday, 6/28 @ 4:00pm ET
Detroit Public TV: Sunday, 7/1 @ 10:30am ET
PANEL:
Marty Linn, Manager, Advanced Automation and Principal Robotics Engineer, General Motors
Mike Cicco, President and CEO, FANUC America Corp.
Jeff Burnstein, President, Robotic Industries Association
John McElroy, Autoline.tv
There’s a big concern over robots eliminating manufacturing jobs. On Autoline This Week, we’re joined by three robotics experts who say that while some jobs will be lost, more new ones will be created. And that robots will make manufacturing companies cost competitive in global markets.
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June 29th, 2018 at 12:20 pm
Nice collection of “Robot Cheer Leaders” but mot one “Reprehensive” for the human worker. Do the math on a micro scale for “head count” on each manufacturing line. More robots = fewer humans.
July 5th, 2018 at 8:06 pm
no mention of Tesla Grohmann Automation which used to work for other manufacturers but now just does Tesla work