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I can definitely confirm that robots are even replacing low-wage workers here in Guangdong Province area of China, especially in these dirty manual labor jobs t
by bobjordan 10y ago
I can definitely confirm that robots are even replacing low-wage workers here in Guangdong Province area of China, especially in these dirty manual labor jobs that nobody likes to do anyway, like part painting production lines and surface grinding and polishing for die-cast parts. The local provincial government is actually encouraging this and has tax credits in place for companies that are automating in these somewhat-dirty factories, like the grinding-polishing factories. The factory owner of our primary die-casting partner even pitched me to invest in starting another company making these industrial robots. There is going to be a lot of low cost but capable robots coming in the next few years.
- mistermann 10y agoIf China comes up with a reasonably "correct" way to navigate this transition to sophisticated automated manufacturing, they should be able to easily leapfrog the US because their political structure doesn't have to go through the more difficult problem of negotiating between affected parties. Western countries would have to politically argue for multiple years before making the smallest change.
- BatFastard 10y agoIt just has the issue of hundreds of millions of unemployed workers, a big issue then it is in the U.S. since it has been going thru this same issue for 20 years. In China it will happen much faster.