Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
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Rodney Brooks
Panasonic Professor of Robotics (on leave),
iRobot, & Heartland Robotics
Volume
Non
Consumer
Luxuries
Necessities
Value Add
USA
US Manufacturing
Since WW2
$35
$30.01
$30
$24.32
$25
$20
$16.87
$15
$10
$8.11
$3.72
$5
$0.90
$0
Germany
France
United States
Japan
South Korea
Taiwan
Mexico
China (est.)
Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; China est. from Lett and Banister, U.S. BLS, "Labor Costs of Manufacturing Employees
in China: an Update to 2003-04; Deloitte & Touche survey of North American manufacturers
Robots?
! First installed in a GM
factory
! 1961
! Later bought by
Westinghouse
! then sold to Kawasaki
Distribution of # of US Manufacturing
Companies By Revenue
Transformation of Computers
graphics production
publishing (Web, and even paper)
language translation services
movie editing
music production
1992
2000m/6hrs
2005
200km/6hrs
Stanley, Stanford
June 2002
January 2010
> 7,000
> 5,000,000
balance of payments
who the manufacturing powers can be
how the supply chain works
what the nature of manufactured goods are like
Analogy: MFG.COM
Sunday, March 28, 2010; Open RFQs
MFG.COM
Enablers
Result
! Universal availability of
Internet
! Web standards and
browsers
! High-end 3-D CAD and
spreadsheets for
personal computers
! Overnight shipping
services
Industrial revolutions:
! skilled workers
producing both high
value and mass market
products
! robots take over the
simple cases of the
simple tasks freeing
workers to be smart
! robotics and STEM
education intertwine to
support each other