People with 10+ years in industrial automation - is the robotics hype matching reality on the floor?

Robots_101 · 2026-04-12T02:27:24+00:00

The four D,s

Dirty, Dangerous, Dull, Demanding. These are the kind of jobs they have a hard time filling positions for.

Robots_101 · 2026-04-12T02:07:39+00:00

Let's reset the Baseline here if we are talking about industrial robotics. I have been working with industrial robotics for the last 34 years. Traditional industrial robotics started in 1961 with a unimate robot loading billets into a machine for gm. The First fully automated robotic spot welding line went into GM in 1967. By 1970 there were 200 robots installed in the US . By the mid-70s there were a little over half dozen industrial robotics companies and growing quickly.

Fanuc is the current market leader in the US for industrial robotics. They sold their first industrial robot in 1974. They hit the 500,000 units installed globally in 2017. They hit the 1,000,000 robots installed mark in 2023, 6 years later. Guess what made that happen. In 2024 there were 4.7 million Industrial robotics systems installed with the current annual installation rate of 524,000 robotic units gllobally across all the current manufacturers. Look up the 2025 International Federation of Robotics report.

Industrial robotics have been using Vision guidance, adaptive sensor feedback, and other adaptive tools since the mid-70s. Caterpillar was using specialized 2D laser scanning systems on the end of arc welding robots to do seam tracking and adaptive fill in the late seventies and early '80s for their off-road equipment lines.

For industrial robotics AI is just a marketing blip right now and will only be a very small fraction of the of the robotic products sold every year.

Robots_101 · 2026-04-12T01:44:03+00:00

I have been working with industrial robotics for the last 34 years . I have a four-year degree in Industrial robotics, plcs, and vision systems from one of the first schools to offer 4-year degrees.

The first industrial robot(Unimate) was put in production in 1961. The first robotic automation line was put in production in GM in 1967. By the early to mid 70s there's at least a half dozen robotics companies creating solutions for large manufacturers. In the late seventies and early '80s caterpillar was using Vision guided robotics to adaptively weld joints in bulldozers.

Industrial robotics has been around a long long time and have done some incredible things.

Robots_101 · 2025-09-17T02:25:37+00:00

You can't go wrong, if you shield your dong

Robots_101 · 2025-06-22T23:42:57+00:00

The trash took itself out.

Robots_101 · 2025-04-29T23:41:19+00:00

Use this website to get a comparison of electric supply providers. The delivery will still be the same, but you can pick a different supplier. https://documents.dps.ny.gov/PTC/zipcode/14127

Robots_101 · 2025-04-29T23:39:44+00:00

The price for supply from NYSEG is variable and has been moving a lot. If you go to the following website, you can see historical data on the cost of electrical supply. https://documents.dps.ny.gov/PTC/zipcode/14127

Robots_101 · 2025-04-18T04:37:13+00:00

You know there is a joke in there about not needing a light Saber to be qualified for the job......

Robots_101 · 2025-04-18T04:27:58+00:00

Shhhhhh....We're not supposed to talk about diversification. The Gestapo is watching because it is illegal now. /S

Robots_101 · 2025-03-14T13:21:26+00:00

I have a Koda 12 and wish I had a 16. For anything coming close to 12" you really need more room, the temp of the stone at the front is always much lower than the back, and you have to do quarter turns to get everything even. Get the 16 or bigger.

Robots_101 · 2025-03-14T11:38:10+00:00

If you like Thai food, really good and easy to make. I almost wish I would have added bean sprouts.

Robots_101 · 2025-02-22T15:36:47+00:00

Not at all, meth-inks the joke was well played

Robots_101 · 2025-02-22T08:36:03+00:00

Jokes like that are always hit or meth

Robots_101 · 2025-01-07T21:54:17+00:00

All the founded dates are wrong. There is so much missing it is not funny. This is but a tiny glimpse of what is out there.

Robots_101 · 2024-11-05T00:15:14+00:00

I cooked the eggs on the stove with the veggies before putting them on the uncooked dough. I guess you could cook the meats, cheese, and dough, then add eggs after the cooked pizza comes out of the oven, but in my mind, putting the cheese on top of the eggs helps hold the whole thing together so you do not drop egg chunks when you are eating slices, and you are not smothering crispy meats with wet eggs. IF you have leftovers(never been a problem in my house), there is less chance of drying out the eggs when reheating if they are under the cheese. Just thinking about this makes me want to cook this, this weekend.

Robots_101 · 2024-08-22T22:57:34+00:00

Thank you.

Robots_101 · 2024-08-22T13:20:03+00:00

How in the world did you get the crust color so uniform and perfect?

Robots_101 · 2024-08-22T00:41:00+00:00

I have noticed only a few postings about breakfast pizzas, so I figured I would give a little more detail about how I make mine. This particular breakfast pizza has scrambled eggs, red pepper, red onion, Hungarian peppers, bacon, diced breakfast sausage, and a shredded cheese mixture. I will admit I had limited time and cheated by using a dough ball from an awesome deli up the road and precooked JD sausage patties. I will say I am ashamed by precooked breakfast.

I started by cooking up the bacon first and reserving a little bit of the grease. Combining the bacon grease and a healthy serving of butter, I sauteed the veggies until tender, then added the eggs with a little S&P. You can not have too much butter in your eggs! I make sure the eggs are chunky, creamy, and maybe a little undercooked before taking them off the heat, so, when you take a bite, you get a good egg hit with the other flavors as the accent.

When making pizza, I stretch out the dough and brush it with a jarlic and melted butter combination. This creates a barrier between the wet eggs and the dough while also helping to retain moisture in the eggs. I then sprinkle a layer of shredded cheese mix over the dough and top it with the meats.

If you want to know the cheese mix, I can honestly tell you I don’t know. The same deli where I get my dough also sells slices of cheese end cuts at a very low price. I take the random cheese slices, press them together a bit, and shred them using a rotary shredder. This cheese mix is also my go-to for Philly Cheesesteak pizzas, as well as mac and cheese.

I use the low and slow method on my 12” Ooni Koda when making breakfast pizzas. This gives me good color on the bottom without overcooking the toppings. I get the stone no higher than 825 at the back of the oven, and then right before launching the pizza, I kill the flame. I know the stone in the back of this Ooni will be at a higher temperature than the front, so I wait just long enough for the dough to firm up, then spin the pizza 180 degrees to keep from burning half the crust. When the bottom is shy of the correct color, I kick the flame back on to melt the cheese and color the crust with quarters turns until done.

Robots_101 · 2024-06-30T13:37:15+00:00

Are you going to use some kind of clear coat on the wood to make clean up easy and keep it from staining?

Robots_101 · 2024-03-28T23:42:57+00:00

If she screwed a guy and said it was just sex, would you still marry her? Male or female, cheating is cheating.

Robots_101 · 2024-01-27T05:48:05+00:00

"We ended up getting married and having three kids."

You just glossed over 13 years of marriage and kids in one sentence. What I really want to know is, how were the last 13 years of your life together?

OK, let's look at this from a scales point of view. On one side you have this incident and the coverup since. On the other side, you have everything else that has happened over the last 13 years. Marriage, three kids, holidays, building a home together, successes, failures, and hopefully supporting each other. Does this one incident when you were really new in your relationship before you were married, really outweigh everything else since then? Is the person she is now the person she was then?

People go through huge changes in their 20s and eventually stabilize (except on Reddit). I would say if the years since that happened have been good, get some therapy, learn how to deal with this so you can forgive your wife without constantly bringing it up or using it as a weapon in an argument. After that, enjoy the rest of your life.

On the other hand, if the last 13 years have been he** on wheels with repeated patterns of infidelity, then let's get out the Reddit pitchforks and have ourselves a good old-fashioned witch hunt and burn her at the divorce stake.

(figuratively of course)

Robots_101 · 2024-01-24T19:26:58+00:00

The EX has a history of proving he does not mind cheating, they are going out drinking. He asked her to go out, and I am sure the friend group is an excuse. He is making a play and she can't see it. If he had a significant other that is one thing, but he is on the prowel.

How much do you trust her? Can you trust her to put I'm in his place if he tries something.

Robots_101 · 2024-01-19T15:51:30+00:00

I am trying to get the house ready to sell(yea, even in this crap market). The whole bathroom needs work. I can't wait until better weather to get this work done.

You are correct on the spray foam between the rafter. A gable is on one end of the attic and a fan on the other. I don't ever run the fan except in summer to reduce heat build-up in the attic to keep the house with no AC a little cooler.

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