US Robotics Companies Push For National Strategy To Compete With China (apnews.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/03/27/2351255/us-robotics-companies-push-for-national-strategy-to-compete-with-china
- Source link: https://apnews.com/article/united-states-robotics-competition-china-tech-702796f1584fe1920e5fd86f15a99b4f
> Jeff Cardenas, co-founder and CEO of humanoid startup Apptronik, of Austin, Texas, pointed out to lawmakers that it was American carmaker General Motors that deployed the first industrial robot at a New Jersey assembly plant in 1961. But the U.S. then ceded its early lead to Japan, which remains a powerhouse of industrial robotics, along with Europe. The next robotics race will be powered by artificial intelligence and will be "anybody's to win," Cardenas said in an interview after the closed-door meeting. "I think the U.S. has a great chance of winning. We're leading in AI, and I think we're building some of the best robots in the world. But we need a national strategy if we're going to continue to build and stay ahead."
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> The Association for Advancing Automation said a national strategy would help U.S. companies scale production and drive the adoption of robots as the "physical manifestation" of AI. The group made it clear that China and several other countries already have a plan in place. Without that leadership, "the U.S. will not only lose the robotics race but also the AI race," the association said in a statement. The group also suggested tax incentives to help drive adoption, along with federally-funded training programs and funding for both academic research and commercial innovation. A new federal robotics office, the association argued, is necessary partly because of "the increasing global competition in the space" as well as the "growing sophistication" of the technology.
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My US Robotics modem can still compete with China (Score:2)
... in all aspects of V.32bis and HST!
Re: My US Robotics modem can still compete with Ch (Score:2)
Nerd.
So to translate (Score:4, Informative)
Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme Gimme
Fun fact if you make $50,000 a year you pay about $50 a year in taxes for food stamps and direct welfare payments. You pay about $4,000 a year for corporate welfare. Funny that we hear about the former so very much more than the latter.
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> Fun fact if you make $50,000 a year you pay about $50 a year in taxes for food stamps and direct welfare payments. You pay about $4,000 a year for corporate welfare. Funny that we hear about the former so very much more than the latter.
That's because we're forced to. Ask anyone about welfare and food stamps and they'll ask why they are subsidizing lazy people and how they need to get off their a**es. (Ignoring the fact most of those people are working, and if not, can't work - either due to disability, conv
Re: So to translate (Score:3)
I do think that there is a very valid discussion to have about corporate welfare.
Unfortunately the party that considered themselves the flag bearer on corporate welfare ceded the high ground by importing millions of immigrants and giving them hotels and food all the while completely ignoring hurricane victims. And they kneeled at the feet of the oligarchs to gather the gold coins.
Someone really needs to switch off their brain to not see thereâ(TM)s something wrong with that!. Maybe itâ(TM)s one of
You're a straw manning (Score:1)
The issue of immigration has nothing to do with the issue of corporate welfare and you're falling back on it because of it.
As for immigration there's nothing wrong with it if we're all getting a piece of action. The problem is we bring in fuck tons of immigrants and they generate tons of money and it all goes to the top and we just lose our jobs.
You fixed that with a federal jobs guarantee. And I mean good jobs. Real jobs. You bring the skills and the government brings the work. If the job creators
But will they let Trump wet his beak (Score:1)
Over the years, Republicans and Trump already gave world dominance in solar panels, wind turbines, and now electric cars to China. I'm sure for the few billion some Chinese whales put into $TRUMP, they will get robotics.
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As much as I dislike this admin, no, they didn’t hand dominance to China. China has picked a few select industries and firehoses money into them. They pick an industrial/tech/scientific area that the emperor thinks “if we dominate this industry we’ll be able to rule all of Asia”, and they shovel money at it. The problem is that it impoverishes the rest of the country and that’s like an anchor around the neck of their economy. The US does it too, but in quite a different way tha
Robotics are important... (Score:4, Interesting)
Ages ago when I was working with a group on a business plan to make a storage silo that didn't use tape, but bare hard drives to move between reading areas and storage bays... at the time, the only robotics company that was able to do what was needed was Siemens. At the time (~10 years ago), nobody else had the precision to move around bare hard disks, because there isn't any easy gripping surface unless one wanted to mount a sled or tray to them (or an enclosure like the RDX format.) The research and prototyping was interesting, and likely something could have come up with it.
We have lost a lot of mechanical expertise. Current companies can't even make a cassette tape player that comes close to a Sony Walkman player made decades ago in terms of size and features. We need robotics companies... and a return to having more mechanical engineering expertise so we can do things like 400 CD autochangers or floppy drives, should a shift happen which makes customers move to offline media. Currently, it would be a major undertaking to do basic stuff that was commonplace in the 1990s.
Fake News (Score:3)
Surely the head of Doge, busy cutting whole government departments, would not advocate for the creation of a new government office, that would directly benefits Tesla's Optimus robots. The press would have a hey day with the utter irony and double standards. Furthermore you are admitting that capitalism on its own is not sufficient to compete with China. That is also sacrilege.
Strategy (Score:2)
Make a better fucking robot than them, without denying them access to markets. How about that? We have the smartest people in the world, maybe we should act like it instead of being insecure? And if we don't have the smartest roboticists, then we'll figure out some other shit to do. Any strategy we take must be the one that best advances the field of robotics for the benefit of Americans and actually, fuck it, all humanity too. I don't expect us to learn. We'll do tariffs, we'll do "protectionism", we'll do
Competing economic systems (Score:2)
If the current system is being out-competed by other economic systems, then change the system. An economic system is just a utility, it isn't something we should have an emotional investment in like a sports team.
How to start? China's five and ten year plans seem to be working pretty well. Worth a try.
What does it mean to "win' robotics? (Score:2)
I'm curious about this. What would it mean to "win"? That the majority of industrial robots are designed in the US? By engineers based in the US? Do they need to be built here? Or sold here? Do the companies making robots need US headquarters?
Then coms the economic question. So we encourage US companies to invest in robot design and production. What do we give up to achieve that? Should we stop having engineers work on data storage systems? AI? EVs? Batteries? Cars? Medical equipment? There's only a limited
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"Winning robotics" means a bunch of money coming into the industry for the captains to skim off. It doesn't have anything to do with robots.
Also, I don't think a coherent "national strategy" is possible on anything right now, unless it's a social media blitz, or scrubbing pictures of negroes.
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No, I take that back. A coherent strategy is possible for fraud as well. But for robots? For building anything ? No.
Kinda funny how... (Score:2)
US companies when the government regulates their industry: "You should not interfere with the free market!"
US companies when there is competition from another country: "You have to interfere with the free market!"
US Robotics? (Score:5, Funny)
I thought this article was going to promote the Sportster X2 over those Chinese Zoom v32bis modems!
Re: US Robotics? (Score:2)
Nerd 2.0.
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Damn! Beat me to it. RJ-11 anyone?
Can we get the XJack back? (Score:2)
I was thinking we could see the XJack make a comeback. That would really be awesome for laptops.
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Except that the copper lines are now disabled by the telcos all over the world.
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True, true. US Robotics is *a* company, not companies. Damn the editors.
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I too was excited by how the headline started, and disappointed by the way it finished.
Been a long time since a modem was headline news on slashdot.
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> I too was excited by how the headline started, and disappointed by the way it finished.
I'm having trouble reconciling that, in a good way, with your username... :-)
Re: US Robotics? (Score:2)
Here for the 56K, all the way!!
BBS are making a comeback fwiw and thereâ(TM)s a whole new community finding the Commodore 64 and similar 8 bit machines.
Thereâ(TM)s no viruses nor.data stealers there!!
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Came here for the modem jokes; was not disappointed.