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Obama: Advanced manufacturing can boost jobs (Obama wants more "Lawn Mowing" Robots)
yahoo ^ | 6/25/2011 | JIM KUHNHNEN

Posted on 06/25/2011 5:37:07 AM PDT by tobyhill

President Barack Obama says technological innovations such as robots can help pump jobs into the economy and spur growth in clean energy and advanced manufacturing.

In his radio and Internet address Saturday, the president echoed a plan he unveiled Friday in Pittsburgh to join the federal government, universities and corporations and re-ignite American manufacturing with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and new technologies.

"Their mission is to come up with a way to get ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor to the marketplace as swiftly as possible, which will help create quality jobs, and make our businesses more competitive," Obama said in his address, which was taped Friday during his visit to Carnegie Mellon University, where he saw a display of mini-robots that explore water and sewer pipes.

He also marveled at robots that can defuse a bomb, mow a lawn, even scrape old paint.

With growing interest from the military, businesses and consumers, the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute has more than 500 technical experts and a $65 million annual budget.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atm; dearleader; robot; robots; totus; zerocare; zeroemployment
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To: tobyhill

Time to retool those evil ATMs.


21 posted on 06/25/2011 6:06:19 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: PghBaldy

Of course not. He just reads it.


22 posted on 06/25/2011 6:06:31 AM PDT by OKSooner (You can buy a plate of tacos but you can't buy a friend.)
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To: tobyhill

Is this to make up for the ATM gaffe? Funny that he is saying technology will create jobs when he just stated that technology is killing jobs.


23 posted on 06/25/2011 6:07:12 AM PDT by imskylark
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To: tobyhill

Where does he get his ideas at a crack convention?


24 posted on 06/25/2011 6:08:29 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: PghBaldy
He can't even decide what kind of Luddite he is. The problem with ATMs is that they weren't marketed as “Green”. However, even though they use electricity, I'll betcha they use far less energy and paper per transaction than the traditional bankbook or paper check transaction.

The man is the most profoundly ignorant person ever to serve in the Oval Office. I mean that literally and say it as a matter of fact without rancor or invective.

25 posted on 06/25/2011 6:09:12 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

You are such a racist to dis the first affirmative action - confirmed doper president. /S


26 posted on 06/25/2011 6:13:29 AM PDT by x_plus_one (Obama's legacy: Trashing the North American continent into a third world hell hole.)
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To: CT Hillbilly

My hillbilly husband will have weekly robot races with his good friend Bud Weiser...

You have that about right. If they make something with a motor eventually someone it going to try and race it.


27 posted on 06/25/2011 6:21:13 AM PDT by chainsaw (I'd hate to be a democrat running against Sarah Palin.)
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To: tobyhill
Will I have to check that my lawn-mowing robot came into this country legally, or will that paperwork be done for me by another robot?

If the Obamatron robots can clean hotel rooms and cook/bus tables as well as mow the lawn, all the Democrat voters he keeps enabling across the border will have no jobs to do.

28 posted on 06/25/2011 6:28:28 AM PDT by Bernard (The only Fair Tax is the Tax that Taxes YOU and not ME)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Dude - you know what would be COOOOL? What if, like, we had a bunch of lawn mowing robots man, you know, that could mow the lawns and stuff? That would ROCK, man.

Where you gonna find grass in downtown Chicago, LA, NYC, etc. ?

I mean the kind you have to mow.


29 posted on 06/25/2011 6:28:42 AM PDT by chainsaw (I'd hate to be a democrat running against Sarah Palin.)
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To: x_plus_one
the first affirmative action - confirmed doper president.

If you wanna call me that, smile.

30 posted on 06/25/2011 6:35:48 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
From the age of 5 to age 10, we learn the foundations of our society. Americans become Americans.

This prick Obama was in Indonesia learning about the Koran.

That's a big problem he can never overcome. His brain is wired for the Middle east. This is why he bows to Islamic dictators. They are his role models. Not George Washington. In simple American terms, he's a god damn f-ing know it all foreign prick.

31 posted on 06/25/2011 6:47:20 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: tobyhill; SunkenCiv
*PING*

Thanks, toby.

Yeah, especially all those "manufactured" unemployment and inflation statistics. /sarc>

Cheers!

32 posted on 06/25/2011 7:01:02 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: PghBaldy
Post of the DAY!

Consider yourself highly commended, sir.

Cheers!

33 posted on 06/25/2011 7:01:45 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: tobyhill
The least experienced, least knowledgeable, and least informed orator on ANY topic....except maybe ice cream, or pie.

34 posted on 06/25/2011 7:08:27 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: tobyhill

Isn’t this the same President who, just two weeks ago, blamed ATM’s and Airport kiosks for taking jobs away?


35 posted on 06/25/2011 7:08:46 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (if there were a little more of me around we'd all be better off.)
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To: pnh102
Its also a big problem in his head. For 20 years he sat in a church spewing hatred for America. He has lectured that Americans have too much.

Now this jack ass wants our economy to grow so that he can get reelected?

Asking Obama to lead America is like asking a pedophile to watch your kids.

36 posted on 06/25/2011 7:11:22 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: tobyhill
If Obama simply jumped off the Empire State Building it would probably jump start the economy. But Biden would have to follow him.
37 posted on 06/25/2011 7:22:22 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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To: tobyhill

All of this takes reliable energy sources.......


38 posted on 06/25/2011 7:22:22 AM PDT by Puckster
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To: pnh102
"The other thing that happened though, this goes to the point you were just making, is there are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers," President Obama said about unemployment in an interview with NBC's Ann Curry.

Everyday is a brand new day to our president.

39 posted on 06/25/2011 7:25:41 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: Puckster

We need to open a new Federal Department of Ingenuity. Maybe Algore could be the first secretary to head it. We could give them a 1 trillion a year to come up with inventions to fuel the green economy(Depression). Also, we could expand Homeland Security to collect fees for molestations at Airports. Some people might like to go through the lines twice to get an extra grope, and we could charge them.


40 posted on 06/25/2011 7:38:19 AM PDT by PA-RIVER
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