Robots with massive blades? What could go wrong?
Jordan Smith was in Las Vegas looking for snowplow driving simulators. Seeking such devices in the Nevada desert seems odd, until you realize that Smith, the owner of a major North American supplier of snow removal machinery called Storm Equipment, was in Sin City attending CON-EXPO, a giant construction equipment trade show.'There are a lot of contractors there who do snow,' he says. But, after testing out four different ersatz driver training models, he came away disappointed.
'A lot of the work that underlies the world we live in—from the roads that get built, to the buildings that get built, to the areas that need clearing—there are a lot of operators who work in harsh environments operating machines for eight, 10 hours a day in very difficult and stressful conditions,' says Vinay Shet, CEO of Teleo. Not surprisingly, these jobs are hard to fill. Pay is low, given the stress and strain.
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