The Robot Revolution: The New Age of Manufacturing | Moving Upstream

Hundreds of millions of jobs affected. Trillions of dollars of wealth created. These are the potential impacts of a coming wave of automation. In this episode of Moving Upstream, we travelled to Asia to see the next generation of industrial robots, what they're capable of, and whether they’re friend or foe to low-skilled workers.

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[zheeshuenbak]

This is the right way to go, automate the boring stuff. Free up work to let humans explore, learn, and expand their horizons. The thing that has to change is the structure of our Society and Economy.

[lil----lil]

"No, because they've no choice" This statement is almost poetry.

[alexanderm]

"Is there an resistance from workers?" "No because they have no choice"

[TheModernInvestor]

Welcome to the future, this is only the beginning

[squillafrixum]

This is why I'm a robotics Engineer.
I should still have a job for a bit lol

[RajSachdeva]

This should be updated yearly to see how faster robotics are changing the work place.

[katecarlisle]

Looking forward to being able to extend my lifespan through replacement body parts, the future looks amazing!😍🤖

[mattphorwich]

People get scared of something new they don't understand...I'm excited about the challenge and opportunities to step it up as humans and get smarter.

[MiloLabradoodle]

I love the Cobot idea and feel we can get much more sophisticated operations done, and achieve more manufacturing flexibility, when robots work with humans.

[billybunnell]

The evolution of electronics today is truly amazing

[shin-ishikiri-no]

The interviewer disapproves of your thoughts before you think them.

[Livemem]

Andrew Yang is right, it's coming, and we are not ready for the wave. Yang2020, I'm on board.

[yip-yip]

I think this could be a great opportunity, but also a great threat. Because of that I am happy to see videos like this one, since there's not enough discussion about this topic in my opinion.

To properly benefit from automation, I think it's absolutely necessary to rethink our views on economics. We're gonna have a bad time adjusting these advancements to our current systems, but it could elevate us to a new level of freedom if we play our cards right and adjust our systems to the advancements we make.

Great video on a very impotant topic!

[Vini-BR]

we should be moving with confidence towards a future where jobs are for machines, everything is abundant and zero cost, the environment is protected and people do whatever they want with their lifetime. Leisure defines human dignity instead of work.

These changes are mostly cultural and have got to be worked on urgently, we're losing time. This could have been acheived a lot sooner.

[ToneyCrimson]

"Low skill worker"

We are all low skilled compared to a robot soon enough.

[SNPAI]

Its nice having automated systems that can perform various tasks. I can see that the living standard will soon include self cleaning houses, meals that cook themselves, self driving cars, factory workers will be an alien idea, drinks can be prepared by a machine that's available in every building

[ChuckCoy]

Personally I despise doing work that a mindless machine can handle.

[flashmedia]

Nothing wrong with Robots doing the grinding. It makes product cheaper. More robots the better for human. We can focus on smaller and easier and safer tasks.

[yuyurtrtrt]

You can definitely see the cultural differences between the west and the east here. I China and the east technology is seen as helpful and people are proud. In the west people are cautious of technology and some are even luddites.

[SteveAkaDarktimes]

the problem is that the underlying economic and social system isn't set up for this change. if we continue in the same way without adapting and innovating new organisations and priorities the social problems and unemployment rate will be monstrous.