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Robots Make the Coins Go 'Round, Down Under

Posted by timothy on from the can-haz-coin-collections dept.

inkslinger77 writes "Computerworld has a cool slideshow of a Kuka Titan robot and a bunch of AGVs managing the circulation of coins at the Australian Mint. There's also a lengthier article where the head of the project talks about the main reason robots were employed. One of the reasons being that they radically reduce OH&S risk: 'We are finding that the AGVs are much safer and more reliable. Robots are never affected by having a bad night with the baby and falling asleep at the wheel. They are extremely accurate and they always do the same task in the same way.'"

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  1. Re:Why don't they hire men? by twostix · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well if the baby's breastfed then it's a little hard for a man. I know I know I'm a "sexist pig" for suggesting that there's things woman can do (and want to do) regarding child rearing that men can't physically do. But I forget myself - there's no difference between a man and a woman, none at all, we're all carbon copies of one another, cogs that can be replaced with another.

    Not to mention if mum is staying at home nurturing bub she'll get to have a sleep at some stage during the day (usually after lunch). Dad has to get up early and go into work and I haven't seen many "dad" friendly workplaces that'll let him have a one or two hour nap in the afternoon because he was awake at 3am feeding.

    Women who want to nurture children as their instincts drive them to are not welcome in the western middle class and strangely as I've seen it's "career oriented" *women* who have the largest and most open scorn for other women who "just" want to be mums (fuck that for a job - far to difficult!).

    - Has two children under the age of 2 and am unthinkably lucky to have woman who bravely embraces her motherly instinct in the face of the never ending assault on it by (mostly) other females who seem to wish that they were men.

    Then again a racist who writes "The reason it's OK to make an all-black group but not an all-white group is that white people..." as you did probably should be a little reserved when it comes to labeling others.