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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 MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Robots are never affected by having a bad night with the baby and falling asleep at the wheel.

    I'm not trying to be misogynist here, but should women with very small kids be working? Isn't this exactly the type of thing we should expect the government to try to protect through programs designed to give women time off that they need after having a baby?

    Its not just women who look after the baby you know.

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  2. Re:Good morning by pete-wilko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So what's your point? The banner says 'news for nerds' - this is interesting stuff.

    You know the modern web browser was invented 16 years ago - should we link to mosaic every time a story on FF/IE/Chrome/Safari/Opera comes up?

  3. Re:Hrmm by TheLink · · Score: 4, Insightful

    BUT inflation aka printing money is a way for the Printer to tax the users of that currency.

    It's all part of the plan.

    You see the great thing for the USA is the rest of the world uses US dollars to buy and sell stuff like oil, and zillions of other commodities and products. Even amongst themselves. Because of that very many countries end up holding billions or even trillions of US dollars.

    So when the US Federal Reserve lends[1] its friends X trillion US dollars ( and they only need to pay back 'later' when convenient), it's actually a way of taxing everyone else.

    Now the US citizens should be happy if they get their share of the printed money as well, but if they don't they really should do something about it.

    In contrast when Mugabe in Zimbabwe prints money, only the people using Zimbabwe currency are hurt. Which means the rest of the world is mostly unaffected.

    [1] Or allegedly "lose track" of it :).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXlxBeAvsB8

    http://www.graysonforcongress.com/newsitem.asp?NewsId=90

    http://www.graysonforcongress.com/newsitem.asp?NewsId=91

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