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Toyota to Employ Advanced Robots
olegalexandrov writes "Toyota Motor will introduce robots which can work as well or better than humans at all 12 of its factories in Japan to cut costs and deal with a looming labor shortage. The robots would be able to carry out multiple tasks simultaneously with their two arms, achieving efficiency unseen in human workers and matching the cheap wages of Chinese laborers, a report said on Thursday." The Motley Fool has a humorous take, and Toyota emphasizes that goodlife, err, humans will continue to have a place in Toyota factories.
Well gosh darn. Who'd-a-thunk-it. I mention something about the worldwide fact that the population is rising, and someone I don't even know comes out of nowhere with a little known fact to show that, in Japan, there's a report which makes a projection that by 2050, the population will decrease.
If you read the report, they project that the population will continue to increase to 2006 and then decrease back to current size by 2013. That gives 1-8 years for factors to change.
Who the heck are you that you even know of this report? Are you a Japanese consulate? Perhaps you're some statistician someplace playing insurance numbers?
I don't care. You and your network of trolls (yes, even at user number 173) can get bent.
Take this for example:
2. Method of Projection
The cohort component method is used for this projection, as with the previous report. This method takes into consideration international migration while calculating the ages of the existing population using the future life table. It also uses the future fertility rate to calculate future births and obtain the number of survivors for the population that is expected to accrue. Five items, (1) base population, (2) future survival rate, (3) future fertility rate, (4) future sex ratio at birth, and (5) future international migration numbers (rates), are required to project the population using the cohort component method.
What the heck is the "cohort component method"?
fast as fast can be. you'll never catch me.
The fact is, it is a reality that is looming for many nations, including the United States
You forget the sanity check. The reality is that there's a shortage of people willing to do a song and dance in order to get a meal.
In nature there is never a "labor shortage". As long as you have people, you have people who are willing to work for their next meal. That's called self-preservation. You and user #173 can stuff it.
Now, once the fat rich queers, who've never had to work a day in their life, wish to continue to withhold their almighty currency until they're properly entertained, then they call it a "labor shortage". Perhaps, if they were half as intelligent as they fancy themselves to be, they'd figure out a way to keep the song-and-dance a little closer to the dinner plate.
If there's ever a "labor shortage", it's most certainly a sign of severe mismanagement. It cannot be a fact of nature.
fast as fast can be. you'll never catch me.
Oh really, been to the projects lately?
It's entirely not my fault that the pyramid scheme of government has to give out free money in order to appear benevolent so as to hoodwink fools like yourself.
fast as fast can be. you'll never catch me.