Commerce Secretary Howard Lungick says that disturbing people in the job insecurity due to President Donald Trump’s prices can be assured that they – and generations of their children – will find work in factories.
Trump has pushed his pricing policy as a means of invigorating manufacturing in the United States, which, according to him, could, among other things, create more jobs.
Nowadays, however, manufacturers often count on automation to build their products. Many American companies, including car manufacturers, plan to introduce humanoid robots into their factory floors.
In 2020, Hyundai acquired the manufacturer of Boston Dynamics robots for $ 1.1 billion. Boston Dynamics and Hyundai announced this month an additional $ 21 billion partnership, which includes the purchase of tens of thousands of robots. Hyundai uses Boston Dynamics robot robots in factories and plans to deploy its humanoid atlas robots in the future.
Ford also bought digit robots, the humanoid robot manufactured by Agility Robotics. And Amazon tested Digit in its realization centers.
An automation company, Formic, told Business Insider earlier this month that its customers had increased their overall use of robots by 17% between January and February, likely to increase production before prices.
So what would these quasi-pasture human workers do in factories? Lutnick said in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday that the United States should train people to be technicians in these automated machines.
“It is time to train people not to do the work of the past, but to do the big jobs of the future,” said Libnick. “You know, this is the new model, where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life, and your children work here, and your grandchildren work here.”
In a separate CNBC interview on April 3, Lutnick said that American factories “will see the greatest increase in training for what we call trades – teacher to people how to be robotic, mechanical, engineers and electricians for high -tech factories.”
Lutnick reiterated this idea on Tuesday, saying that most of the automotive parts are “highly automated” and that the thousands of people working there are “trained to take care of these robotic arms”.
When Lunick was asked if the robots would take most of the jobs in the scenario he described, he replied that “all these automated arms and stuff” still need human operators to repair them.
“They all need a technician to repair them. All these things are a commercial job. This is educated in high school, excellent jobs that started in the 80s and 90,000,” said Lutnick.
“It’s not like the way they joke online, you know, the Americans working on the sewing machine,” he added.
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