I had an Armatron robot back in the 80s. The amazing thing about it is that it only had ONE electric motorin it, and everything, joysticks, the arm itself , and even the score counter was linked to this one motor througha very sophisticated gearing mechanism. Other than a battery comparment, wires, and a powerswitch, there were noother electrical compnents inside of it. You could remove the electric motor and and replace it with a windup mechanism and you would not even need batteries. The arm was fully articulated, and you could even rotate the hand, all through the joysticks. A very amazing toy.
Interesting that they predicted in 1984 that the optical mouse would overtake mechanical ones. Mechanical mice stayed in favor until the late 90's when the prediction finally started to come true.
Cleaner than those old ball-mouses, and easier to clean, less frequently needed. Don't need a mouse-pad either, if the surface is flat and not lumpy. OTOH, it's still better to use a mouse-pad with an optical-mouse than none. Cleaning the ball-mouses was, I thought, a bitch of a chore. Now obsolete because newer, better laser-mouses hehehehe
I like how they give you time to read the laws of robotics. I like how enthusiastic that guy is talking about robots in the last minutes of the main block.
@@AcornElectron it just takes practice that's all you just need to stretch the tissues so they don't tear when you try it as that's why it is extremely painful
The part of the intro at 0:15 is so obnoxious and loud. I love watching these videos as I fall asleep, and that 2 second sound clip jolts me awake with how shrill it is compared to any other sound in all these episodes... :(
The only robot that I have ever been near was the little robot that comes with some editions of the Nintendo NES. That was in the late 1980s after the Great North American Home Video Game Market Crash of 1983/1984 had occurred.
@@raven4k998 There are many people who enjoy the vintage things of the 1970s-80s-90s Amazingly, most old technology still works good as new. 40 ~ 50 year old tech and software still works just as well as it did so many decades ago... :-) They will outlast us !
@@SeaJay_Oceans well that which has not been recycled anyways or thrown out though they now use ssd's due to mech drives they originally came with being to unreliable these days
9:50 "Replacement of workers by industrial robots has affected very few jobs, and if we extrapolate into the future using the same rate as in the past, it will continue to be a small number of jobs." Right, because if there's one thing everybody in tech knows it's that the rate at which technology did x or y in the past will be the EXACT same rate that it continues to do x or y in the future. What a smart guy.
Jobs did NOT go overseas because Americans did not "like" repetitive tasks. They went to where the corporation could pay SHIT wages and not have to worry about ANY environmental issues or taking care of workers. 40 years later and America is nearly gone.
Don't be mistaken though, a lot of jobs were also just completely replaced by robots and other forms of automation. Experts keep claiming that those jobs were replaced by programmers, system maintenance people and process controllers. But the number of people needed for those is just a fraction of the people who used to work directly at an assembly line. A lot of people think those jobs also went overseas when in fact they just plain disappeared altogether. I recon that many more jobs were lost due to that then due to moving them overseas. And I'm sure a new wave of lower end jobs will disappear in the next 10-15 years when people will be replaced by AI/Self learning systems. (For instance Alibabi the Amazon of china already hardly uses any people in their warehouses, they have robot forklifts that take care of logistics, and package delivery is done by drones instead of human couriers.)
It is funny how he tries to spin it like he is doing America a favor by sending jobs overseas. "Then we free up employees for much more interesting and creative jobs!" lol yeah right.
Congress would not reign in spending, and natives couldn't support the Congress's debt issuance. Therefore a foreign buyer was needed. Started with Japan, then MX, then China. A neccessary consequence of this need was manufacturing jobs had to be exported. Corporations had no choice but to play along. This is why Trump had to be eliminated.
@@HerecomestheCalavera the short version is universal basic income, the long version is... less pretty. Ideally there should be a lot more regulation about this so it at least happens in a sensible order, but regulation is so corrupt nowadays it would probably do more harm than good.
Whooaah, eventrough those robots were everything except being smart,but they were ahead of it's time andthey marketed the new age of human life, it brought forward the industry.
Look forward to a lot more robots in the consumer service industry in the coming decade. All the mandated high minimum wage and lower equipment prices will bring these mainstream to replace the non-skilled worker.
@@banksuvladimir It's literally asking the companies to calculate if they can save by buying robots. A lot of 24 hr around here won't even hire high schoolers anymore because they have a single person who just watches the self-checkout now; it's too expensive to hire anyone else at $16/hr. People who want to be paid more for menial work that requires no degree or diploma are shafting the new generation - where are they going to start if the minimum wage job is making as much as an entry-level civil engineer?? No one would want to leave such a position or move up.
@@Shaker626 lol “where are they going to start”, I love this bullshit from people like you that think that “menial jobs” are there for teenagers to get a start in employment. Teenagers make terrible employees. Those jobs are not there to be training wheels for kids. If you staffed all of the “menial labor” with teenagers, I hope you’re ready to deal with empty shelves/everything stocked in the wrong location/terrible all around customer service. Just because your only personal experience with “menial labor” was being babysat as a teenager by older people actually trying to do the job for real doesn’t mean that those jobs exist for the sake of giving teenagers a pretend job. “Too expensive”? Oh yeah, paying people $25k a year is SOOO outrageous right? I mean you’re just monopolizing their time and energy for the majority of their waking hours and making billions of dollars doing so. Those companies sure do live by a razor thin margin though, right jerkoff. I’m sure you’ve drank that koolaid as well. And I love the whole mantra of “well it’ll just be cheaper to automate it away”, a fucking self checkout machine is not “automating their jobs away”; I’m sensing a pattern here where you think the only parts of something that exist are the ones you personally deal with, and you seem to be under the impression that point of sale is 99% of the employment at these places when it isn’t. Places like Walmart have been majority self checkout for over a decade at this point and they still have over a hundred people working in each of those stores. It’s really bizarre that people like you are still harping on about how easily replaced “menial labor” is with automation when we’re nowhere close to automating most such jobs, while jobs like being an artist, lawyer, journalist, consultant, programmer, etc have essentially already been automated away with chatgpt. Walmart tried a robot to just do inventory and ordering for them and they ultimately cancelled it because that “menial labor” was just too difficult for modern AI and robotics, while all of the big “important” jobs turn out to be way easier to automate. So why are you still rambling on in this old paradigm of “the jobs for those big dumb idiot lessers who work with their hands will be automated away” when it’s ALREADY BEEN PROVEN that the complete opposite is true?
Fun Fact: The first time testing it, the robot threw a ball right at Gary's groin💀 They had to adjust the robot so it didn't hit the ball so hard next time lmao
To an extent this is becoming more and more common. Lawyers now use automation software to pull documents or sections of documentation relevant to their current workload rather than searching manually. This is only going to advance to a point where the lower level tasks are completely done by ai/robots. This is also true for accountants.
was Amd even started back then or did they come around later? remember Intel came first Amd came later not sure how much later just later so they might not have yet been started up yet
IIRC, AMD would compete with Intel in the commercial CPU chip market beginning in the early-2000s. Then, the AMD CPU was faster AND cheaper, but would likely burn-out in like 3 or 5 years. Whereas the Intel CPU cost a bit more for a bit less speed, but would last, forever?
We're better than the Japanese on robotics. LMAO not even close. The Japanese have fully working robots that look and sound like real people and have always been far more advanced than American robotics even in 1983 and yes, I am American.
'look and sound like a real people' -- you need to change your view on what a 'true' robot is. By your criteria, if I stick an mp3 player into a mannequin, that makes it more advanced than something from Boston Dynamics , why? Because it sounds and looks like a person.
This talking about assembly lines is full of shit!! Auto workers make a ton plus some of the best benefits around. In fact there r several study's that have shown that the downturn in American automotive industry including the major loss of reliability is due to the unions. The unions r still a major problem with the us maintaining its dominance in the world. Hell the unions in Europe r nothing like the ones here. They work with the company not against it. It's not 1900 the union doesnt need to exist anymore except for jobs that r truly dangerous where the union puts a extra layer of protection like mining, fire fighting, police forces and alike.
I had an Armatron robot back in the 80s. The amazing thing about it is that it only had ONE electric motorin it, and everything, joysticks, the arm itself , and even the score counter was linked to this one motor througha very sophisticated gearing mechanism. Other than a battery comparment, wires, and a powerswitch, there were noother electrical compnents inside of it. You could remove the electric motor and and replace it with a windup mechanism and you would not even need batteries.
The arm was fully articulated, and you could even rotate the hand, all through the joysticks. A very amazing toy.
Me too. I'd play with it for hours trying various dexterity scenarios.
It's been 37 years since this video was made, and now TH-cam's algorithm recognizes the song used in the making of it. Fascinating, Captain.
so I have a question what happened to micro focus?
Interesting that they predicted in 1984 that the optical mouse would overtake mechanical ones. Mechanical mice stayed in favor until the late 90's when the prediction finally started to come true.
yeah the optical mouse is far superior to the old mechanical mice that it replaced
Steve Kirsch, that fringe guy, invented the modern optical mouse.
Cleaner than those old ball-mouses, and easier to clean, less frequently needed. Don't need a mouse-pad either, if the surface is flat and not lumpy. OTOH, it's still better to use a mouse-pad with an optical-mouse than none.
Cleaning the ball-mouses was, I thought, a bitch of a chore. Now obsolete because newer, better laser-mouses hehehehe
love the face of the guy when gary ask him about adding vision to the robot xD.
17:18 😂
I like how they give you time to read the laws of robotics.
I like how enthusiastic that guy is talking about robots in the last minutes of the main block.
you want one admit it🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Humans can twist their wrist like that, though it's a one time deal lol
hahahahahaa
I can do that, it’s not a one time deal, it IS extremely painful
@@AcornElectron it just takes practice that's all you just need to stretch the tissues so they don't tear when you try it as that's why it is extremely painful
Japan is still ahead of robotics and many other things to this day
The part of the intro at 0:15 is so obnoxious and loud.
I love watching these videos as I fall asleep, and that 2 second sound clip jolts me awake with how shrill it is compared to any other sound in all these episodes... :(
I LOVED my Armatron lol
The only robot that I have ever been near was the little robot that comes with some editions of the Nintendo NES. That was in the late 1980s after the Great North American Home Video Game Market Crash of 1983/1984 had occurred.
To some people this is history, to others - we lived it ! :-)
I lived did you?
@@raven4k998 Ya, it was good times...
@@SeaJay_Oceans yeah they were good times shame they are over now but oh well
@@raven4k998 There are many people who enjoy the vintage things of the 1970s-80s-90s Amazingly, most old technology still works good as new. 40 ~ 50 year old tech and software still works just as well as it did so many decades ago... :-)
They will outlast us !
@@SeaJay_Oceans well that which has not been recycled anyways or thrown out though they now use ssd's due to mech drives they originally came with being to unreliable these days
3:25 Whenever the machine/creation destroys its creator, I call that the Frankenstein Effect.
i got an armatron toy got it from tandy york uk store about 1987 still in attic i think
9:50 "Replacement of workers by industrial robots has affected very few jobs, and if we extrapolate into the future using the same rate as in the past, it will continue to be a small number of jobs." Right, because if there's one thing everybody in tech knows it's that the rate at which technology did x or y in the past will be the EXACT same rate that it continues to do x or y in the future. What a smart guy.
Cabbage Patch Dolls, Oh how I remember the madness! :D
the real madness would be listening to their intro music while driving down the street in your car that'll make you go crazy so fast
I assembled a HERO robot for electronic class in 1983.
meanwhile 40 years later we surpassed their imagination!
Jobs did NOT go overseas because Americans did not "like" repetitive tasks. They went to where the corporation could pay SHIT wages and not have to worry about ANY environmental issues or taking care of workers. 40 years later and America is nearly gone.
Don't be mistaken though, a lot of jobs were also just completely replaced by robots and other forms of automation. Experts keep claiming that those jobs were replaced by programmers, system maintenance people and process controllers. But the number of people needed for those is just a fraction of the people who used to work directly at an assembly line. A lot of people think those jobs also went overseas when in fact they just plain disappeared altogether. I recon that many more jobs were lost due to that then due to moving them overseas. And I'm sure a new wave of lower end jobs will disappear in the next 10-15 years when people will be replaced by AI/Self learning systems. (For instance Alibabi the Amazon of china already hardly uses any people in their warehouses, they have robot forklifts that take care of logistics, and package delivery is done by drones instead of human couriers.)
@@PhoenixNL72-DEGA- I wonder why people will do when more and more jobs are gotten rid of?
It is funny how he tries to spin it like he is doing America a favor by sending jobs overseas. "Then we free up employees for much more interesting and creative jobs!" lol yeah right.
Congress would not reign in spending, and natives couldn't support the Congress's debt issuance. Therefore a foreign buyer was needed. Started with Japan, then MX, then China. A neccessary consequence of this need was manufacturing jobs had to be exported. Corporations had no choice but to play along. This is why Trump had to be eliminated.
@@HerecomestheCalavera the short version is universal basic income, the long version is... less pretty. Ideally there should be a lot more regulation about this so it at least happens in a sensible order, but regulation is so corrupt nowadays it would probably do more harm than good.
Back when Japan was spearheading technology
Whooaah, eventrough those robots were everything except being smart,but they were ahead of it's time andthey marketed the new age of human life, it brought forward the industry.
14:29 Woah, Stu. What kind of show is this? 😀
Hero1 kind of looks like a strange cross between speak and spell with bigtrak + an arm
Look forward to a lot more robots in the consumer service industry in the coming decade. All the mandated high minimum wage and lower equipment prices will bring these mainstream to replace the non-skilled worker.
yeah robots are working on replacing us all
If people keep on demanding a higher minimum wage, that is what they deserve.
@@Shaker626it’s what people “deserve” for asking to be paid a living wage?
@@banksuvladimir It's literally asking the companies to calculate if they can save by buying robots. A lot of 24 hr around here won't even hire high schoolers anymore because they have a single person who just watches the self-checkout now; it's too expensive to hire anyone else at $16/hr. People who want to be paid more for menial work that requires no degree or diploma are shafting the new generation - where are they going to start if the minimum wage job is making as much as an entry-level civil engineer?? No one would want to leave such a position or move up.
@@Shaker626 lol “where are they going to start”, I love this bullshit from people like you that think that “menial jobs” are there for teenagers to get a start in employment. Teenagers make terrible employees. Those jobs are not there to be training wheels for kids. If you staffed all of the “menial labor” with teenagers, I hope you’re ready to deal with empty shelves/everything stocked in the wrong location/terrible all around customer service. Just because your only personal experience with “menial labor” was being babysat as a teenager by older people actually trying to do the job for real doesn’t mean that those jobs exist for the sake of giving teenagers a pretend job. “Too expensive”? Oh yeah, paying people $25k a year is SOOO outrageous right? I mean you’re just monopolizing their time and energy for the majority of their waking hours and making billions of dollars doing so. Those companies sure do live by a razor thin margin though, right jerkoff. I’m sure you’ve drank that koolaid as well.
And I love the whole mantra of “well it’ll just be cheaper to automate it away”, a fucking self checkout machine is not “automating their jobs away”; I’m sensing a pattern here where you think the only parts of something that exist are the ones you personally deal with, and you seem to be under the impression that point of sale is 99% of the employment at these places when it isn’t. Places like Walmart have been majority self checkout for over a decade at this point and they still have over a hundred people working in each of those stores.
It’s really bizarre that people like you are still harping on about how easily replaced “menial labor” is with automation when we’re nowhere close to automating most such jobs, while jobs like being an artist, lawyer, journalist, consultant, programmer, etc have essentially already been automated away with chatgpt. Walmart tried a robot to just do inventory and ordering for them and they ultimately cancelled it because that “menial labor” was just too difficult for modern AI and robotics, while all of the big “important” jobs turn out to be way easier to automate. So why are you still rambling on in this old paradigm of “the jobs for those big dumb idiot lessers who work with their hands will be automated away” when it’s ALREADY BEEN PROVEN that the complete opposite is true?
If only they could see back then what we do now. GPT, Tesla bot, even our toys!
Fun Fact: The first time testing it, the robot threw a ball right at Gary's groin💀 They had to adjust the robot so it didn't hit the ball so hard next time lmao
That boxy robot sound creepy
THERE ARE DRUGS IN THE MOTHERFUCKING ROBOT!
Enter Fanuc, Kawasakiand Yaskawa with their multi axis, ball bearings, cnc and sensors and better programmed robots and american to dust.
Miss that armatron....always prayed it'd beat up my sisters....oh well hopefully the 8bit guy got it to
Computer Analicles
Buy activision at 4 or apple at 25… wish I would have known… or was born.
Today you can make these robots with an arduino...
AI robot lawyers . . .
To an extent this is becoming more and more common. Lawyers now use automation software to pull documents or sections of documentation relevant to their current workload rather than searching manually. This is only going to advance to a point where the lower level tasks are completely done by ai/robots. This is also true for accountants.
Watch that! A.I. is made for _people,_ not the other way 'round. And that is not to be changed, no matter what advances are ever made, see.
dusty rhodes!!!
disappointing how robot almost did not improve since then
Boston Dynamics
Market winners. Intel. Where was AMD?
was Amd even started back then or did they come around later?
remember Intel came first Amd came later not sure how much later just later so they might not have yet been started up yet
@@raven4k998 AMD was very well established by then and made plenty of money as a secondary source fab for many types of chips.
IIRC, AMD would compete with Intel in the commercial CPU chip market beginning in the early-2000s.
Then, the AMD CPU was faster AND cheaper, but would likely burn-out in like 3 or 5 years. Whereas the Intel CPU cost a bit more for a bit less speed, but would last, forever?
Even a STEM toy of today can do a lot more than this..30 yrs down, they’d call an autonomous car like Tesla primitive..
We're better than the Japanese on robotics. LMAO not even close. The Japanese have fully working robots that look and sound like real people and have always been far more advanced than American robotics even in 1983 and yes, I am American.
'look and sound like a real people' -- you need to change your view on what a 'true' robot is. By your criteria, if I stick an mp3 player into a mannequin, that makes it more advanced than something from Boston Dynamics , why? Because it sounds and looks like a person.
Show us these amazing Japanese 1983 robots, please.
How about the IBM Watson !!
This talking about assembly lines is full of shit!! Auto workers make a ton plus some of the best benefits around. In fact there r several study's that have shown that the downturn in American automotive industry including the major loss of reliability is due to the unions. The unions r still a major problem with the us maintaining its dominance in the world. Hell the unions in Europe r nothing like the ones here. They work with the company not against it. It's not 1900 the union doesnt need to exist anymore except for jobs that r truly dangerous where the union puts a extra layer of protection like mining, fire fighting, police forces and alike.