The key takeaway from the article;
Hyundai: *Buys Boston Dynamics in 2021
Trump: “We’re going to bring manufacturing back to America!”
*Imposes tariffs on car importsHyundai: OK
*Deploys robots in Alabama plant to do tasks usually done by humans.People still have to feed the dogs and clean their poop and stuff. They just have new jobs.
Depends on the job. If you can shift to robotic maintenance as opposed to working on the line, maybe you could make more. Of course that’s not easy to do. In an ideal world we eventually get UBI, but, you know.
I mean, at some point robots will be able to do those jobs too.
At some point only robots and robots CEOs, Robot business owners will have jobs. Most humans will have no job and so no money to buy stuff made by the robots.
Human Resource will be made redundant and replaced RR-Robot resource
Hyundai owns Boston Dynamics, so it makes sense, not that it’s not an interesting story but it was the obvious end goal.
I thought they were funded by DARPA. How is this not a national security concern…
Great. So, even if manufacturing does return to the USA – the jobs will not. As everyone predicted. What is the difference if robots have all the manufacturing jobs on US soil instead of foreigners in China? Correct. There is none. Except the company has avoided paying the tariff — whose only purpose was to “bring the jobs back”.
Quite simply we must boycott any company using robotics. The Trump tariffs are an insane policy, lowering America’s standing in the world, destroying the world economy (and there will be unexpected blow back for that too) and they should be immediately reversed.
We’ve been on a trend of increasing automation for a long time, and that’s not going to change. Nor should it.
The fact that we can just look at this and just act like it’s normal is wild, guess I shouldn’t be surprised since it’s 2025 but like…Boston Dynamics only had the dogs 10 years ago.
