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

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.

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

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

The interviewer disapproves of your thoughts before you think them.

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

Welcome to the future, this is only the beginning

"Low skill worker" We are all low skilled compared to a robot soon enough.

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

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

Dey took our jerbs!!!

The evolution of electronics today is truly amazing

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

Yet we're told we can't afford a UBI. Well, who's going to be able to buy the products from your automated factories when everyone is automated out of a job?

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.

Interesting video for sure

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.

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.

The interaction, cooperation and working together of humans AND robots is my personal inspiration. Part of your report mentioned that more/INCREASED productivity occurred when humans AND robots worked together. This is my strong belief. I do NOT believe that robots and automation will completely replace humans.

high quality content, keep it coming WSJ

7:28

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.

great documentary!!!!

Looks like more work for engineers who design the robots, the technicians who maintain them, the sales and marketing teams that are supporting the customers to use them. It's just a shift of jobs from unskilled to skilled labour. In the company I work at, the few robots we've added to the production lines have improved product quality and freed up our people to work on more meaningful tasks.

Interviewer: "Any resistance from the workers?" Corporate guy: "No. Because they have no choice." (Sez it all, don't it?)

Robots could be very useful in underwater salvage recovery.

World needs more and more robots.

I have just bought a robot for home floor cleanning, it is amazing! It is 100% automation and the home floor is spotless,exceps some cornors! Can't wait to see to skynet rising! lol

I think that robots taking on more work is fantastic so long as those gains in productivity don’t go exclusively to the fewer hands that operate the robots given that automation is way more of an issue for displacing labor than outsourcing. Nations should be excited robots are doing work. This is entirely up to the governments, what their taxation is scheme is like and how they invest those gains back into the community.

Yang for President!

*Great series: Ty!* 🤖💖

Freeing the people from the repetitive, day after day, labor intensive, boring jobs, is the holy grail of the robots. Freeing humans up to work with our brains!!!!

God its depressing how far behind we are in the US when it comes to robotics.

For a short time I worked at FedEx and I could easily see the ways that moving packages could be completely replaced and improved by robots. The problem is that FexEx is one of the largest employers in the area, it would result in the lost of hundreds of jobs. Unlike China these people will have nowhere to go, they can get a lower payer job if they are lucky. China also has a massive advantage over the US because of their top heavy population, once the older people retire of eventually die of old age they will still have enough money in the economy to support the younger generations while being supplemented with robots. In the US we are not so lucky, our younger generations are some of the most threatened by the loss of lower and moderate skilled labor. Automation is now destroying management too, people are being replaced by robots and algorithms now and we are not doing enough to make sure they are supported.

You have to start showing links to the research done by MIT so that people who are interested could easily research this topic further

We are a six-axis force sensor manufacturer in Shenzhen, China, hoping to help foreign buyers.

Steam engine - Electricity - Information -> Now is robot, a natural progression.

Andrew Yang 2020!!! He speaks the truth!!!

Thank you Sir

This is wonderful!

Unemployment 4.6 percent now that's an eye opener.

Andrew Yang’s proposal UBI is the way to go! Yang2020

what an incredible time we live in

Amazing

"They'll get new jobs quickly", possibly, but what happens when those other companies replace their workforce with robots too?

this is where a universal basic income steps in

This is a wonderful, informative and insightful video about AI and what it can and will produce.

Hallo wall Street Journal you are doing a great job. I need more theoretical videos on automation.

and here we are in the U.S worrying about immigrants.

To what end? What will they manufacture once all consumers are gone?

totally agree, very responsible steps to be taken to regulate the increasing automation

Very informative on new ways of selling products and services

This age excites me

0:24 *The robots look like they're eating*

True thx homie

Impresive video... wow... the amazing technology...

Learn about Resource Based Economy!

digital is the future for the average worker

The most important issue of our time is taxation on production resources. Share the money automation generates to state for distribution to population

Congratulations! God bless the sweet world!

"Large industrial robots that do dangerous things like WELDING" Welding is not dangerous, but humans do it imprecisely and with varying results.

We really need to start talking about *Universal Basic Income...*

Interesting documentary

Awesome report

7:28 The rest of his sentence clearly got cut out.

I for one welcome our robot overlords

Can't wait for UBI!

amazing

The Internet of Things (IOTA) might even enable secure machine2machine payments in the future.

This is why I vote for yang2020 for President. If you haven’t heard of him go check Andrew Yang and his policy out.

I think we should move in the opposite direction. Have teams of four lift 1.5 ton palettes with bamboo sticks, have workers dig ditches using only spoons and do all computation by slide rule. That should keep us all pretty busy!

Excellent work, congratulations yur Dream work

The biggest impact is going to be truck drivers.

This is why we need Andrew Yang. Yang2020

I have a question, I am thinking that in my business automation like this can help, how do I start the research? for example, I need a robot that will open an envelope and separate the paperwork in the envelope and the actual envelope. How does it work? who can develop the setup and everything?

I agree with the statement, that it is a conscious choice we make, whether this change will be good or bad for our society. And actually, this is the case with everything.

if anyone is worried, consider the fact that these robots break down, someone needs to repair them. so learn how to be a robot mechanic /!

"No energy system can produce sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it" (The Fifth Law).

Awesome contenet

Amazing video.

China's promise is to rebuild a new silk road which expands Chinese trade market and the countries within, robotics will give people more freedom of choice and demonetization of labour and world economics and full automations can be reached in three to five years, but we humans need something new and new type of welfare that can help unemployment. In the near our normal work hours which is eight must be changed to six or four hours, since there is so much wealth in this world, people can enjoy better and more leisure time. Plenty of hours to learn Tai Chi, Qigong, Wushu and other classic martial arts.

They should invent robots that can buy stuff, because people cant at some point in the future!

i love how the cut his response away at 7:29 w

It's robotics, ML and 3D printing that will be the core of manufacturing in the next 20 years

While Radio Shack went to the size of a mushroom.

To quote C3PO:”Robots making robots? How perverse!” Haha :p

Yaskawas H welding cell is my dream set up 😍 and optons pipe bending robots

I collect these kind of videos in one of my playlists, "botshots" , it has the pros and cons, those for, and those against ; somehow we'll work it all out.😅

I am looking forward to seeing more robot taking on labouring jobs. What Americans don't understand which I can see in the face of the reporter this fear that there will no be jobs for the uneducated. In most countries that is called progress in the USA a whole lot of them would like to go back to some sort of agrarian society which is nuts hence the USA losing its edge in the world.

All major political leaders in America are totally AWOL on this issue.

you've made a great video!

People are concerned with robots replacing unskilled labor but the easiest jobs to automate are skilled white collar desk jobs.

I work in the industrial world and have come to a new realisation. The growth in robotics is NOT based on AI. AI is an expensive lab idea that may some day start to make a difference in manufacturing. But TODAY, what is driving the new automation wave is simple: cheap Chinese made automation machines. Where a manufacturer would stall a decision on purchasing a $100k machine, that manufacturer will jump at a similar machine made for a mere $1k. It becomes a no brainer even if the quality of the Chinese machine isn't as great.

It's time for Resource Based Economy (The Venus Project) ! ! !

I remember as a teen, in downtown Portland, OR., back in the late 80s there was a man on a street corner. He was tall and looked like he stepped out of the show, "Twilight Zone". He waved his hands and said, the machines are taking over, the machines are taking over! He was sounding the alarm. People looked at him like he was crazy. He was right.....

The potential is huge , and this could be the step for defeat underpaid and dangerous jobs , but it can also turn in a disaster , it all depends on politics and managers . I hope this will finally give humans the freedom to don't worry about primary needs and concentrate on higher jobs or/and pleasure whiteout worries .