.7/28/2025   A letter to the WSJ from a Baylor Professor _____________________   Walk into any fast-food restaurant today and you’re as likely to place your order with a touchscreen as with a human. California’s nobly christened “Fast Food Franchisor Responsibility Act” certainly seemed to reduce job opportunities, but these and other laws that establish…

7/1/2025 Robotics speeds up at Amazon. I recently toured the Amazon warehouse in San Marcos.  It screams for robots. There are so many mind numbing jobs that would bore and exhaust a human. So moving picking and sorting are being designated to robots. See my previous post for a link to an excellent weekly newsletter…

6/30/2025   Here is a link to a free newsletter on robotics. It publishes on line each Monday. I suggested TAMUSA start a robotics program but no that idea was rejected.  https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/

6/5/2025 The robots are coming     Issac Asimov wrote the classic I Robot sci fi story predicting the rise of robots, that future is here now. I understand a Fed Ex or UPS driver makes like $170,000  a year, for delivering packages. What did the Unions think would happen with that kind of wage?…

5/17/2025 After viewing the Amazon warehouse in San Marcos, TX, I observed these repeated tasks would be done much better buy robots who don't get bored as surely humans doing with such routine. That reality is closer than Goldman guessed. Click for phoatos of DIgit at work at AMZN warehouse

4/5/2025 Samsung buys stake in Rainbow Robotics After touring Amazon in San Marcos I remarked it was just a matter of time until someone coupled AI with face recognition in a humanoid robot. This is what SAmsung hopes to achieve with its hHUB02   This goal may be closer than hwe realize watch what HUB02…

3/26/2025Real Robots   Here is a programable robot for kids for 99 Bucks   99 Bucks really?

Wed Sept 11, 2024 Robots have gone from  the imagination of sci fi writers to real world problem solvers. Check out Robotics and Automation News. One can sign up for weekly updates which I have. Now AI will not doubt take robots to another level. And the socialists pushing higher minimum wages are doing their…

Monday Aug 19, 2024 Yes I know AI and data analytics are all the rage or they will be, sometime, somewhere. Mostly firms are throwing money at both with questionable results. For my money what is really happening is ROBOTICS. I subscribe to RObotics and Automation News You should too, it is free. With higher…

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