Chinese Port Goes Full Robot With Autonomous Trucks and Cranes
“By the end of 2018, something will be very different about the harbor area in the northern Chinese city of Caofeidian. If you were to visit, the whirring cranes and tractors driving containers to and fro would be the only things in sight.
Caofeidian is set to become the world’s first fully autonomous harbor by the end of the year. The US-Chinese startup TuSimple, a specialist in developing self-driving trucks, will replace human-driven terminal tractor-trucks with 20 self-driving models. A separate company handles crane automation, and a central control system will coordinate the movements of both…”
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Wow! The robots are taking over our jobs! 🙁
The Big Screen Xperience No, they’re making everything cheaper, more efficient, more abundant and freeing us from jobs. They’re giving us more time to spend with family, build our communities, pursue hobbies and start small businesses. They’re giving us the opportunity to spend more time designing and creating the world we want to live in while they begin to take more and more of the tasks that were taking our time away from that. Because of robots, we’re 3D printing homes for under 10k, we’re growing enough produce for an entire apartment building WITHIN that very building in vertical farms that are using a mere fraction of the water and resources and costs as those associated with traditional agricultural methods, because of robots, we’re able to customize medicine and prosthetics. Because of robots, soon, we won’t even need to own cars and if something breaks in our homes, we can 3D print replacement parts on demand. Because of robots, kids in rural developing nations are learning physics using cardboard virtual reality viewers from professors at Stanford, and their once impoverished parents who never had access to banking or fund management are using cryptocurrencies to create micro-economies right off of their mobile devices, buying, selling, trading and commoditizing everything from products like extra goats for extra milk for the villages to services like proper midwife facilities. The future is all actually quite bright. I highly suggest watching the recent Vice documentary “The Third Industrial Revolution.” As the curator of this Google Plus stream, I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend it. You might be surprised at some of the things that are already happening that no one is paying attention to… impact.vice.com – Watch VICE’s New Documentary, the Third Industrial Revolution