After the brick making machine, here comes two more job-killers.
This brick-laying robot, SAM, can potentially replace six workers!
And this sewing robot, LOWRY, can make as many shirts per hour as seventeen humans!
This brick-laying robot, SAM, can potentially replace six workers!
SoftWear Automation’s big selling point is that one of its robotic sewing lines can replace a conventional line of 10 workers and produce about 1,142 t-shirts in an eight-hour period, compared to just 669 for the human sewing line. Another way to look at it is that the robot, working under the guidance of a single human handler, can make as many shirts per hour as about 17 humans.
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There's a whole range of productivity-enhancing, but labour-intensive technologies (and techniques) that can be introduced in India to - for instance - improve the throughput (output/work) in , say, various economic tasks in rural India; or improve the quality and quantity of construction work all over India which involves unskilled labour for the most part.
These are, of course, technologies based on simple machine - e.g. the block-and-tackle, a two-pulley arrangement that yields a mechanical advantage of 6- or 8- for lifting loads; unfurling customisable rain-water gathering umbrella (can be turned into different directions) with a flexible "bag-tank" arrangement for storing the water for both domestic & agricultural uses ; a mechanical "digger" that yields a similar mechanical advantage for digging of various kinds &c &c.
I can't for the life of me see why such techniques are not widely adapted, and low-skill labour teams and individuals trained to use these in different tasks. They can serve as a crucial intermediate stage while the economy as a whole graduates to a higher technology phase.
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