Kurzweil AI Net points to an article about industrial robotics that I found interesting given the high quality of automobiles manufactured by Toyota:
Tokyo – Toyota Motor will introduce robots which can work as well or better than humans at all 12 of its factories in Japan to cut costs and deal with a looming labour shortage as the country ages, a report said on Thursday. Source: Toyota to Employ Robots
Maybe the setting for “Hop the Bus, Gus” should be Japan, eh? In my fictional story a robot on a mission of mercy travelling by bus encounters an irate, fellow traveler — an unemployed factory worker who was replaced on the assembly line by a robot.
I wonder, with the Toyota Way, whether workers will be treated any better?
A short while later…
The story invokes considerable discussion by Slashdot readers, to include the comment, “just for my sake, and for the sake of all my fellow Star Wars fans, we should just start calling them Droids.”
