wave of the future

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 1,080 – Automating Production.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 1,080. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California – home of Hollywood, home of the stars, home of ESL Podcast.

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This episode is a dialogue between Lauren and Yves about making or producing things automatically, with machines. Let’s get started.

Lauren: Wow, that was an impressive demonstration of how robots can be used in production. I think that we need robots like those to automate some of the functions in our factories.

Yves: I admit the demonstration was eye-opening, but I don’t think the technology is there