We’re so busy fearing AI will wipe out white-collar jobs that we’re missing a far bigger crisis: the scarcity of skilled trades.
Ford CEO @jimfarley98 made a startling revelation in a recent podcast: Ford has 5,000 mechanic jobs unfilled, many paying $120,000 a year, and still no takers. Across the U.S., over a million essential roles in plumbing, electrical work, trucking and factory operations lie vacant.
This isn’t the future. It’s happening now.
For decades, we pushed degrees and desk jobs to the top of the “aspirational” ladder and quietly pushed skilled trades to the bottom. Yet these are the jobs AI cannot replace: they require judgment, dexterity, apprenticeship, and real-world expertise.
So the real question is: Are we about to witness a reset in what society considers a dream career?
Because if this trend continues, the biggest winners of the AI era will be the people who can actually build, fix, and keep the world running.
Marx imagined workers rising through struggle.
He never imagined they’d rise because they became too skilled, too scarce, and too essential to replace!
A revolution not through violence… but through value-discovery
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India’s Terafac Scores Seed Cash
Bengaluru’s Terafac raises money to deploy AI robots that inspect factory floors.
Will low-cost co-bots spark a manufacturing leap in the Global South? #AI#News#Robotics
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going live with Anubhi Khandelwal, co-founder of Terafac, at 11:00 AM at @RuntimeBRT
we'll discuss:
- @AgnikulCosmos' new engine
- @outlierhumans launched Bunny
- @YesKhush_5 launches StoryOwl
- @bhindiai launches AWS agent
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Chandigarh-based AI and robotics startup Terafac has secured Rs 6.5 crore (800,000 dollars) in a pre-seed funding round led by Inuka Capital. The round also saw participation from DEVC, Bharat Founders Fund
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Terafac, a Chandigarh-based AI robotics startup, has raised ₹6.5 Cr in a pre-seed round led by Inuka Capital, with support from DEVC, Bharat Founders Fund, and others.
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My first experience of raising #VC money and having a baller time at it! For someone coming from traditional (closer to ground reality) business background, it’s a whole new world. I need to learn the new ways 😆
The possibilities with AI will breathe new life into the long-dormant manufacturing sector! The transformation will be unprecedented!
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A ton of AI and Robotics developments this week.
Big announcements from Meta, OpenAI Sora, Microsoft, Google DeepMind, Boston Dynamics, Tencent and more.
Here's everything that happened and how to make sense out of it: