Thursday, November 15, 2012

How a Robot Will Steal Your Job

On a visit to Standard Motor Products' fuel-injector assembly line in South Carolina, Atlantic writer Adam Davidson asked why a worker there, Maddie, was welding caps onto the injectors herself. Why not use a machine? That's how a lot of the factory's other tasks were performed. Maddie's supervisor, Tony, had a bracing, direct answer: "Maddie is cheaper than a machine." More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/5uWknv5ia6o/how-a-robot-will-steal-your-job

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