Really? Even for cheap tat?

Yes

I can understand mass-production

You can buy for example

A CNC machine (a good one) and a robot cell

That will act as the CNC machinist

For £2 per hour

Funny scrollback

Beat that

Damn

And it will. Work 24/7

Make very few mistakes

And not complain

Companies come to places like the UK because we good engineers

So they place their cells near the good engineers so the support is there

Maybe some of us just care more about independence than a few years gdp. A purchase if you will.

Funny fact though. Even thought automation is replacing people, we are a servuce based economy

So we are having a net gain

I'll be back later to see if more heads explode

Since we arnt taking many jobs from UK employees

Mainly cheap labour countries like china

Surely, those engineers will work for less abroad and will still make generally the same product since they're all using Fusion 360 and CNC to make the parts?

Not for £2 per hour including their machine

And that's expensive

For the job it does

Fair enough

China's margins have shurnk massively in the past 10 years for manufacturers

Like 20%-7% kinda shrink

It setting to the point its becoming much less worth it

You wanna beat China, neutralise their population advantage

A large pop just becomes a burden if they have nothing to do

Makes sense

I didn't know automation had hit that level and cost-effeciency already

Id give you some specific examples ive done but im kinda bound by NDA

and you never know who is here

what kind of jobs can't machines do yet? what ones are going to take the longest to automate?

I'd assume they can do just about anything, but the complex tasks are expensive

Ones that require more abstract thought

Like Engineering

writing the software the machines run on?

Yes