Japanese robot installs drywall! I can dig it!!!

[_Markk]

Actually “muddling” is not harder...especially physically. Taping and texture (finish) starts with how the board is hung. It the hangers do not know what they are doing they won’t last long with a real drywall company. Taping and finishing drywall is certainly more of a art, but correct hanging is a must...but not easier by any means...hanging “white death” is not a trade one wants to do everyday.

I was being flippant, but it is true in the one summer I worked construction this was the hardest part of the job for me. Not in the sense of being physically demanding, but in a precision sense. It also is likely something harder to build a robot to do because it is more sensitive to smaller variations. Fine motor skills vs. gross motor skills, I imagine.

I have no doubt you would think that if a machine could hang drywall it would free up a 15.00/20.00 and hour drywall hanger to do something like _________ (fill in the blank)

Because I seem like the sort of person who would hold a standard economics view? Have you heard the phrase "creative destruction" before as it relates to capitalism? This is the sort of thing it is in reference to. A specific drywaller might not find a job as good as the one he had, but the labor supply he exists in will adjust and instead of drywallers, you'll have people doing other things. He might have to get a low paying service sector job, but other people won't follow in his footsteps. "Other things" is difficult to always know in advance. A person in 1960 watching the decline of coal mining jobs wouldn't necessarily know that computer programming was going to take off. But labor eventually finds equilibrium. Look at the jobs people were doing in 1918 vs. today. Do you think it's the same work? As things have automated, thus increasing productivity per capita, labor has been freed up to make and provide other things in addition to the fruits of automation. This is good.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

This scares the ____ out of me. It's cool, it really is, but I feel threatened by it.

- Doc

Can it work faster and cheaper than a Mexican pumped full of cocaine?

I feel like this can be the punchline to a good joke. Come back at me when you've worked on it for a bit.

- Doc

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Oh, man. First robot dry wallers and now driverless semi-trucks.

I'm freaking out, man (just kidding I think it's all neat).

This is Volvo and wow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gc1zz5bl8I

- Doc

[_EAllusion]

Oh, man. First robot dry wallers and now driverless semi-trucks.

I'm freaking out, man (just kidding I think it's all neat).

This is Volvo and wow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gc1zz5bl8I

- Doc

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