Like those dumplings? A robot may have made them
We continue to hear more and more about one aspect of our Disruptive Technology theme taking jobs. Yes, we’re talking about the growing use of robots as companies look to reduce costs while driving output higher. While we expect the use of robots to grow over time and expand the number of applications, we thought it would be a little longer until robots would be making our dumplings.
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A factory in northern China is now making frozen dumplings without a single human.
The fully automated factory follows an accelerating trend for Chinese manufacturers to replace human workers with machines. Instead, rows and rows of robots work 24 hours a day in the unmanned factory in Qinhuangdao, Hebei province. They knead the dough, add stuffing, fold the dumplings, package them and fast freeze them.
Last year, the output of industrial robots grew 30.4 per cent. The central government laid out the goal in its latest five-year plan to produce 100,000 industrial robots every year by 2020.If AI takes over the world, capitalism may well not surviveCompanies such as Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, which makes products for Apple, have cut tens of thousands of employees by replacing them with machine labour.
Source: Inside the Chinese dumpling factory where robots do all the work | South China Morning Post
