10,000 Robots a Year

Dear Reader,

The robot revolution is finally here.

Some find it scary…

Some find it exciting…

Some could care less…

As for me, I’m feeling a bit mixed, but leaning toward scared for sure…

Why?

Because they’re going to start flooding the workforce.

It’s a true invasion.

And it’s all starting at an Amazon warehouse near you.

Hopefully one of them doesn’t get out…

Here’s the breaking story…

A company called Agility Robotics is building what it calls its RoboFab manufacturing plant in Salem, Oregon, where it plans to mass produce what are called “humanoid robots.”

Humanoid robots resemble humans in that they’re bipedal, or have two legs. Their purpose is to work alongside humans in scenarios that require heavy lifting or other hazardous tasks.

Agility Robotics calls its humanoid robot “Digit.”

Here’s what it looks like…

They can walk up stairs, carry packages, and even deliver them to your doorstep.

I don’t know about you, but if I saw one of these at the door, I’d be alarmed.

We’ve already seen competitors in the bipedal robotics space, including Tesla’s Optimus and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas.

Some are worried robots will replace workers, and sadly, that’s inevitable.

But according to Axios, “Amazon says the 750,000 mobile robots it has deployed in the last decade have helped create 700 new categories of jobs for humans.”

Also, according to Amazon, “Robots are good at taking on repetitive and predictable tasks, and by doing so, they can free up employees to take on more complex responsibilities that help us better deliver for customers.”

In order to put this invasion into perspective, the prudent observer knows that robots and AI go hand in hand.

If you’ve been reading me for a while, you know I’ve been playing drums for a very long time. And AI has been used in the music industry for decades. Take the drum machine, for example.

According to MusicTech, drum machines predate the modern drum set by over 800 years:

In his The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, written in 1206 in what is now modern Turkey, engineer Ismail al-Jazari described a device consisting of four automaton musicians, two of which were drummers whose rhythms and patterns could be programmed by moving pegs within the mechanism. This was eventually built and used for entertaining the sultan’s guests at parties.

Another prototype drum machine, the Rhythmicon, was invented in 1930 and consisted of spinning disks activated by piano keys that created a rhythmic, drum-like sound. In modern music, drum machines and drum loops are almost indistinguishable from real drums. You’d be surprised how many top-40 hits use drum machines. Prince’s “When Doves Cry,” The Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me,” Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing,” and Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer,” to name a few.

Drum machines haven’t replaced real drummers by any stretch of the imagination, and professional studio drummers remain some of the highest-paid musicians in the world. But all the human drummers are contributing to a massive database for AI to draw on to create loops and samples. This is just one example of AI in music. More recently, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released Jukebox, an AI program that creates new music from scratch with the inputs you provide. It’s created country songs in the style of Alan Jackson and grunge tunes in the vein of Nirvana. It basically compiles sound samples from all their songs and attempts to create a new melody. It’s not quite there, but it’s pretty darn close. And if anything, it’s extremely impressive.

And we can’t forget about a new website called Kupid.ai that’s been making the rounds on the news and social media. It’s a website that lets you fully interact with multiple AI-generated supermodels. It uses an AI chat feature so the AI can have full-on conversations with you and learn about you in the process. You ask it questions, it asks you questions, you can respond, it responds…

This company has created such ultra-realistic AI chatbabes that I can’t even show you a picture because it’s definitely not safe for work. CNN ran a piece about it, saying that AI girlfriends pose a threat to an entire generation of men. I think the implications of this type of AI reach far beyond one generation of men, though. The ability to talk to an AI that knows everything about you, knows what you like and what you don’t like, and asks about your day… Well, I think it’ll be more than just men using this service.

And taking this one step further, what happens when we pair this speech technology with robotics?

An AI robot with the likeness of a human that interacts with you and helps you through life in more ways than one?

These are just some of the ways that the robotics industry is expected to grow to $3 trillion in the near future.

The point is this innovation is taking place at lightning speed.

So it won’t be long until AI and robots take over the workforce.

Agility Robotics plans to produce 10,000 of its Digit robots each year.

That’s an insane number!

And it’ll only keep growing.

Finally, we can’t talk about robots without mentioning the military-industrial complex.

I was driving down the highway recently and saw something flying overhead that looked like a private jet.

But upon further inspection, it was an unmanned drone.

No way, I thought.

But my suspicions were confirmed when it was trailed by another one, then another, and then another.

In all, I spotted five drones flying through the sky.

With all the geopolitical strife going on, the U.S. is producing unmanned drones at an alarming rate.

Some drones are even using AI to fly and engage targets all by themselves.

It confirms what my colleague Jason Simpkins has been pounding the table about.

He’s uncovered a tiny firm that’s currently building a completely new category of aircraft for the U.S. military, one that will mark the end of an era for human pilots and spark the dawn of AI ruling the skies.

It’s something he’s calling “Project Wingman,” and it’s setting the stage for a massive shake-up in the $133 billion aerospace and defense industry.

Now that the Department of Defense is pouring money into the AI pilot race, Jason expects this tiny company’s share price to skyrocket past industry leaders like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman as its groundbreaking technology turns the entire military-industrial complex on its head.

It already have a tsunami of impending military contracts coming down the pipeline.

And once word gets out that BILLIONS of dollars are flowing to this tiny company…

Well, it’ll be too late.

Get the details on this top-secret project here.

Stay frosty,

Alexander Boulden
Editor, Wealth Daily

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