This is a good video about mass produced robots replacing human workers:
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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It also would seem to be the case, that mass production of robots would require rare earth minerals, as well as various materials for batteries, fuel cells, structural elements and so on. As these are not available in unlimited quantitites the robots will not be either, in the near future.
And of course, the total world industrial output is $16 trillion, if 25% of that were devoted to $8000 robot construction, that would be 500 million robots per year. As a technology good they would face obsolence after a few years, and also require maintenance, so robots would remain much less numerous than people worldwide for many years, unless some disaster reduces the human population
LANL is in a weird situation. It wants and needs to be more efficient to build pits and get them done in a timely fashion. Yet if become more efficient and built pits much more rapidly it would be save money and we would need less people, however the metric for success at LANL is the amount of money it gets and the number of people it employees. In that sense there is no motivation to really be efficient or get things done or reduce the workforce. The only motive would be to have money cut if things do not get done, on the other hand if things do not get done LANL could get even more money as they could always claim that we simply do not have enough money and people to get things done. Odd situation, as such I do not think we will LANL will be very interested in getting robots to replace LANL workers any time soon.