Promo 91: Hands On! A Solution to The Skills Gap

Speaker 0 00:00 Coming up this week on the MakerBot podcast, we're looking at the advanced manufacturing skills gap and one man's cans on approach to addressing it. Speaker 1 00:10 Automation is taking over the world and here's what that means. They can Amazon warehouse, it has 3000 people working in it now and those, a lot of those people are human robots. Well, in a few years from now, the 3000 people, it's going to go down to 300 people. And what do those 300 people do? They are the automation robotics technicians. And what does an automation and robotics technician do? Well, they need to know CAD in three D printing because if a gripper arm on a robot has to change, you can <inaudible> <inaudible> and three D printed. You need to know the basics of machining. You know the basics of programming. What is a robot if you take it down into its pieces, it's everything we teach here even. Why are we teaching sewing in the world of robotics? Well, if you ever look at a robotic arm painting a vehicle, that arm is wrapped in a sewn sleeve, and if that's leave cares, someone has to fix it. If that robotic system goes down, a technician of very wealth paid <inaudible>, the skilled technician has to go in and fix it. And my, my theory about the future is on a Starship between galaxies, you will need these makers when things go wrong. Speaker 0 01:15 It's a hands on approach to the advanced manufacturing skills gap this week. Gee, chairman of vocab dummy on make it right.