10-16-15 “We want to make robots a major pillar of our economic growth strategy” –Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. That strategy includes tripling the country’s spending on robotic technology, making it a roughly a $20.2 billion industry. Worldwide, the industrial robotics industry is poised to reach $40 billion by 2020, and Japan has every intention of leading the charge.
http://www.businessinsider.com/tokyo-olympics-will-be-all-about-robots-2015-10
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5-25-16 Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots. One factory has “reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots”, a government official told the South China Morning Post.
Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: “More companies are likely to follow suit.” China is investing heavily in a robot workforce. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36376966
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6-18-15 SoftBank Corp. (“SoftBank”), Alibaba Group Holding Limited (“Alibaba”) and Foxconn Technology Group (“Foxconn”) today announced an agreement under which Alibaba and Foxconn will each invest JPY 14.5 billion in SoftBank Robotics Holdings Corp. (“SBRH”), the SoftBank Group’s intermediate holding company responsible for its robotics business. Under the agreement, upon the completion of the investment by Alibaba and Foxconn, SoftBank’s SBRH share ownership ratio will become 60%, and Alibaba and Foxconn will each hold ownership stakes of 20%.
SoftBank, Alibaba and Foxconn will build a structure to bring Pepper and other robotics businesses to global markets, and cooperate with the aim of spreading and developing the robotics industry on a worldwide scale. Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO of SoftBank, said, “Since foundation, we have followed our corporate philosophy of ‘Information Revolution — Happiness for everyone.’ http://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/news/press/sb/2015/20150618_01/
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Much of the global tech supply chain involves Taiwanese companies such as Foxconn, whose biggest operations are in China churning out the majority of Apple’s iPhones. http://fortune.com/2016/12/07/foxconn-us-expansion/
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468. it is not the purpose of the Teaching to turn students into wind-up mechanical robots. -M: Agni Yoga 1929
262. Machines attracted man away from the art of thinking. Now they are content to be robots! For the equilibrium of the world the heart is needed -Morya: Fiery World 1934
22. At present people invent robots, but after this mechanical fever has abated man’s attention will turn to the powers within himself. -M: Supermundane 1, 1938
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Thus the absolute tyranny of the fallen ones has beget an absolute power that is a black sphere, the “counterfeit to the sphere of the Great Blue Causal Body of the universe. That Great Blue Causal Body contains within it the inner blueprint for every lifestream, and the God-momentum of power with which to fulfill that blueprint! ….
Here where the sign of Gemini is the mind of God for action in concentration, the perversion of the light was in the mechanical creation of a robot in imitation of the Gemini Mind….The fallen created a robot manifestation with a superficial ability to deal with mundane information but lacking the depth of the prongs of love/wisdom that come forth out of the threefold flame. This then seemingly practical yet highly spiritually-impractical robot began to overrun that civilization (on Mercury). -Morya: 10-8-1977 at Pasadena via Messenger E C Prophet
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Lanello wins not because he is always”right, right, right” like the mechanized robots of our religions of idolatry. He wins because he is Real. -Messenger E C Prophet: Cosmic Consciousness, 1986, p. 254
-Norman Thomas Miller: Atlantean Priestess
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