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Mini Robots Package Coffee

Posted September 02, 2007 6:00 AM by Sharkles

Winning the first prize in Rockwell's Extreme Machine contest for its unusually small size (300 sq ft), this end-of-line robotic handling system stuffs 280 sealed plastic cups of ready-to-brew coffee into labelled cases for shipment. No humans are allowed inside this fast moving workcell!

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09/04/2007 8:40 AM

And to think, money used to be thrown away on human beings doing the same thing. Now instead of paying 10 women $7/hr each, we pay 2 technicians $25/hr each and the fat cats keep the difference.

2 of the women marry the technicians and live better lives. the other 8 have to sell themselves to the local brothel where the fat cats visit every weekend.

Don't you love progress?

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