READ THE TEXT BELOW, THEN ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION.
Skilled Work, Without the Worker
By JOHN MARKOFF
NYTimes: August, 2012
DRACHTEN, the Netherlands — At an electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way.
At a sister factory here, in the Dutch countryside, 128 robot arms do the same work with yoga-like flexibility. Video cameras guide them through feats well beyond the capability of the most dexterous human. The arms work so fast that they must be enclosed in glass cages to prevent the people supervising them from being injured. And they do it all without a coffee break — three shifts a day, 365 days a year. All told, the factory here has several dozen workers per shift, about a tenth as many as the one in China.
This is the future. A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world in both manufacturing and distribution. Factories like the one here in the Netherlands are a striking counterpoint to those used by other electronics giants, which employ hundreds of thousands of low-skilled workers.
Adapted from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-globalindustry.html?ref=technology&moc.semityn.www
Glossary:
skill - habilidade
tool - ferramenta
to assemble - montar
feat - feito, façanha
to injure - ferir
shift - turno
adept - competente
According to the text, choose the correct alternative in the following question:
At a sister factory here, in the Dutch countryside, 128 robot arms do the same work with yoga-like flexibility. Video cameras guide them through feats well beyond the capability of the most dexterous human. The arms work so fast that they must be enclosed in glass cages to prevent the people supervising them from being injured. And they do it all without a coffee break — three shifts a day, 365 days a year. All told, the factory here has several dozen workers per shift, about a tenth as many as the one in China.
This is the future. A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world in both manufacturing and distribution. Factories like the one here in the Netherlands are a striking counterpoint to those used by other electronics giants, which employ hundreds of thousands of low-skilled workers.
Adapted from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-globalindustry.html?ref=technology&moc.semityn.www
Glossary:
skill - habilidade
tool - ferramenta
to assemble - montar
feat - feito, façanha
to injure - ferir
shift - turno
adept - competente
According to the text, choose the correct alternative in the following question:
This is the future. A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world in both manufacturing and distribution. Factories like the one here in the Netherlands are a striking counterpoint to those used by other electronics giants, which employ hundreds of thousands of low-skilled workers.
Adapted from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-globalindustry.html?ref=technology&moc.semityn.www
Glossary:
skill - habilidade
tool - ferramenta
to assemble - montar
feat - feito, façanha
to injure - ferir
shift - turno
adept - competente
According to the text, choose the correct alternative in the following question:
Glossary:
skill - habilidade
tool - ferramenta
to assemble - montar
feat - feito, façanha
to injure - ferir
shift - turno
adept - competente
According to the text, choose the correct alternative in the following question:
The Dutch factory produces ____.
