Can Robots Fix Inflation, Supply Chain and Labor Issues? Singapore Thinks So | WSJ

With advanced robots and 3-D printers, HP in Singapore has automated many of its manufacturing processes. WSJ visits the facility to unpack the benefits and risks of adopting high-tech manufacturing.

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[ekananda]

If only HP can do advanced technology like this to their printer cartridges

[dltraining]

Very neat. There are warehouses that are automated. The robot does all the labor and a person just inspects before it ships. One here in southern az the floors needed to be perfect flat. A huge warehouse only had 13 workers. The rest was robots.

[JigilJigil]

The question should be why HP has a highly automated manufacturing facility abroad when it can be on US soil.

[Tomba-ul]

Singapore 👍👍❣️ Greetings from Northeast India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🤟🤟🤞💕🌹🥀☘️🍀🌺🌷🍁🍁

[BeachBoi]

Good Job! 🎉😊 These are the job fewer and fewer people wants to do.

[swedesam]

Companies have been fed up with tight labor shortages and idiotic social trends like "quiet quitting" these past future of automation tech coupled with AI will only surge from here.

[steven]

what makes HP willing to invest so much of cobot in Singapore factory, (those cobot aren't cheap, it cost as expensive as your car for each cobot) and why they still keep the factory there? This is what Indonesia and Malaysia government need to think about this.

[jaydibernardo]

The trouble is regardless of whether humans or robots are making HP printers the printers themselves are still garbage.

[JohnShawOhio]

People are needy, robots not so much. Humans are needed to fix the robot. When the companies develop robots to fix robots. Hmmm 🤔 who will be the robot checker. 🧐

[peterramsay]

‘’Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets ... any sound investment will eventually pay off."

[domidomi]

Thanks to this video I found out for the first time that HP as we know it is no longer the same as Hewlett Packard. Always assumed that as well

[jaridkeen]

I hope robots take more jobs away from humans

[razjackson]

To try to say that it'd be harder for big countries to do that is just an excuse, the exact same could be said about city states as well - that is, that workers, both local and migrant, might 'risk' losing their jobs.

The way forward is and always will be to do with investing in your people, investing in human capital.

Consider these examples: Singaporean students perform amongst the best, if not the best in the world; their housing situation is second to none; healthcare outcomes are amazing; almost unbelievably low crime rates, etc. and so on.

You invest in these things, you won't have much serious issues to keep evolving and progressing.

[gallopwave]

They can certainly work in outer space to build!!

[aarononeal]

The Wallstreet Jornal needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees

[Pinefenario]

How often do those robots have downtime due to faults?

[John_Smith_]

Help, help! I am being held captive by my robotic overlords

[shubhamambekar]

Which country has the best robot companies

[leticialachica]

In the future you need UBI or universal basic income for everyone because many people who lost their job do to robots with AI . Many will go back to school for STEM but new frontier is to space with spacex NASA

[boson]

The new era of industrialization improves productivity but destroy jobs, it's a human resource vs robot world crisis in the making.