Hello folks and welcome to This Is Robotics. I’m your host and fellow companion, Tom Green.

The last half of 2024 is upon us, robotics-driven automation is in rapid ascendancy once again, especially now since 2024 is showing how robotics engages with GenAI, and how prompt engineering is significantly increasing the ease of adoption for robots everywhere.

Last month, we gave you a longish one-hour show, which was necessary for it was meant to support my keynote address at SuperTechFT in San Francisco.

If you have yet to listen to it, it’s Episode # 31 and deals with how quickly computer code has capitulated to prompt engineering…and why. Plus, the new breed of workers on the rise who are being hailed as the “New Collar” generation of workers.

This month, we are listening to our global fans for feedback. We have a global fan base in 68 countries according to Buzzsprout stats.

A fangirl Celina from the Philippines wants us to reprise a woman’s show. Specifically, the rise of Alice Zhang (Verge Genomics) and her pursuit of answers to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS. Thank you, Celina for also pointing out how this story highlights how human insight creates the technical challenge and how LLMs are then employed to reveal a way forward for bio research. For Alice, it was robotics and LLMs cracking the code for ALS.

During Alice’s piece, she laments how broken bio research is and why. Which leads to our second fan request from Martin in Augsburg, Germany, who was fascinated with robotics in bio labs working with AI in what he calls Pharma 4.0.

New drug research and discovery companies with strange, new names like Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Arctoris, Insitro, Relay Therapeutics, and Insilico Medicine are forging the way. Martin, good pick.

We lead off this month humankinds almost innate fascination and attraction to humanoid robots. Why is that? We let a half dozen experts offer up some truly interesting insights and theories on just why that is. Those insights are wrapped up in a show about human attraction to robots where we commemorate National Kiss & Make up Day which is coming up in August.

Okay, strap on your earphones or pop in your earbuds, which Buzzsprout tells us 3,000 people do daily worldwide to listen to This Is Robotics. We’re thrilled you can join us today. Thanks and welcome.

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2024: The Most Important Year in the History of Robotics!

Companion podcast #31 to Keynote address at SuperTechFT 3 July 2024

Happy to be with you one and all. I’m Tom Green, your host and companion on this very special journey for 2024. We are only halfway through the year, and already 2024 has shown us that it is the most important year in the history of robotics.

This podcast will show you why that is.

This podcast is a companion to the live keynote address I will give at SuperTechFT in San Francisco on July 3rd 2024. I want to first thank Dr. Albert Hu, president and director of education at SuperTechFT, and to the staff and patrons of SuperTechFT for inviting me.

The title of my keynote: 2024: The Most Important Year in the History of Robotics!

What other year can possibly compete for top honors other than 2024?

2024 eliminated the barrier to entry for digital programming by eliminating the need to code.

As Tesla's former chief of AI, Andrej Karpathy put it: "Welcome to the hottest new programming language...English"

2024 opened the door of AI prompt engineering to millions of new jobs and careers in millions of SME industries worldwide.

So explains: Andrew Ng, investor and former head of Google Brain and Baidu.

2024 converged GenAI with robotics, broadened robot/cobot applications, and freed robots from complexity of operation.

So announced NVIDIA’s CEO and founder Jensen Huang at the company’s March meeting.

2024 reinvigorated the liberal arts, creative thinking, expository writing, and language as vital new components in developing robotics applications.

So reflects Stephen Wolfram physicist and creator of Mathematica

2024 defined the need for the GenAI & the "New Collar" Worker Connection: Vitally needed workers for AI/robot-driven industry worldwide, and just maybe, the revitalization of America’s middle class…or the middle class of any nation.

Sarah Boisvert technologist, factory owner and wrote the book on the New Collar Workforce

Suddenly in mid-2024, technology has thrown us into a brand-new world

And it’s only early July of 2024...can you believe it?

“Artificial intelligence and robotics could catapult both fields to new heights.”

The 4-Year Plight: SMEs in Search of Robots!

Tech News May Fade, but Its Stories Are Forever!

GenAI & "New Collar" Connection

Did AI Just Free Humanity from Code?

Welcome to a special edition of This Is Robotics for a special look at the "New Collar" Workforce.

Robot-Driven Automation's "New Collar" Workforce

Vitally needed workers for robot-driven manufacturing, and just maybe, the revitalization of America’s middle class.

They’re definitely a new breed!
Don’t call them blue collar and don’t call them white collar. Blue, many perceive as life-long drudgery with a wasted body by the age of fifty, and white as onerous college debt with the worst ROI imaginable.

They avoid large factories and mega warehouses where for every robot deployed three jobs go missing. Besides, those gigs are way up there on the blue-collar drudgery meter. They also shun white-collar offices that track keystrokes, screen email, and surveil worker productivity.

Around them, the world is just beginning to make room for their kind and see value in their non-traditional worldview. Colleges have dropped the SAT. Law schools jettisoned the LSAT. And now employers large and small are dropping the college degree requirement on resumes. A move that seems reasonable since 66% of the country’s population is without a college degree.

See related: States Are Leading the Effort to Remove Degree Requirements from Government Jobs.

As the NYT blared in a headline, which must have put a smile on the faces of all these new-breed contrarians: “Emerging fields like AI, EVs, and robotics feel like a new age in jobs is beginning to settle in, jobs that require advanced skills but not necessarily advanced degrees.”

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