'Full employment' must be talking about robots

Jan 19, 2017 1 Replies

People with advanced degrees in whateverology found themselves flipping burgers and delivering pizzas. Now even pizza guy is on the line. But the FED tells up we are almost at full employment. Their good news is inflation is up ?????? WS


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Starting today, residents and businesses in Redwood City, Calif., and



robot. Starship Technologies, an Estonia-based startup created by two Skype co-founders, Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, will put its autonomous ground-delivery robots to work delivering food with Postmates in Washington, D.C., and DoorDash in Redwood City, Calif.



The six-wheeled robots are a little under two feet tall, weigh about



idea is that one day soon these autonomous rovers will share sidewalk


makes its deliveries. The handlers will take notes on how well


Each rover works like a delivery person: It goes to the restaurant to get loaded up (with its handler in tow), delivers to the address and then goes to the next restaurant to do it again. Neither Postmates nor DoorDash will charge extra for the robot experience. And Postmates


deliveries a day.



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The nation is near full employment and the economy is close growing steadily on its own without stimulus from the Federal Reserve, the Fed



Francisco.


percent for some time, she noted. Nevertheless, inflation has begun to creep back towards the 2 percent target as the job market continues its upswing, the Fed chief said.


Winston_Smith quoted:

The robots are expected to make around 10

Umm, I have no idea what these things cost, but 10 deliveries a day doesn't seem to make any economic sense. Assuming the things cost $10K or more, I can't imagine how it can be cost effective.

Jon

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