Somebody said that to me a few years ago, and honestly, I think we’re still a looooong way away from robots being able to weld up repair jobs.
Sure, they can be used for making mass produced, new items, but a huge amount of welding work is bespoke pieces, or repair jobs. And honestly, building a robot to do that work will be far, far, far more hassle to most employers than simply paying someone to get in there and get it welded. There are just too many variables to take into account for the machinery to be cost effective - right now.
Of course, a few years down the line, and the robots might have become cheaper to deploy, but they’ll have to be damn cheap for people like my boss who refuses to even buy a few old Android tablets so we can digitise much of the shop floor documentation.
Destraight@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’d like to see a robot try to bend underneath trailers and climb on top of trailers to do my welding job, but guess what? They can’t. So unless you got some Boston dynamic acrobatic bots in stock that are “programmed” to do my job. it will never happen and I have nothing to worry abt
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 11 months ago
Fair enough, I hadn’t considered repair job when I wrote that.
But if I were you, I’d be really careful about that “never”. If you’re old enough, you might have retired by the time your job will be replaced, but it’s going to happen.