1. Hotel services are a little harder to automate, but obviously there are elements of automation which do reduce the workload.

酒店服务不容易实现自动化 但显然可以利用自动化 来减轻部分工作量

2. The research and development cost of automating a specific task, can often exceed the cost saved by the automation itself.

将一项具体的任务自动化 所需的研究及开发费用 往往会超过实现自动化后所能节约的费用

3. These three problems have been an issue since factory automation began, but as time goes on, the machines improve and the cost of automating declines.

自从工厂自动化生产开始 这三个问题如影随形 不过随着时代的进步 设备不断改进 自动化费用也随之降低

4. Automation clearly has been happening for a long time, and it has, you know, automated a lot of very laborious work that we don't want to do, and that's gonna continue to be the case in the future, but I do think that this time is genuinely different.

自动化显然已经发生了很长时间 你知道 它可以自动化 很多我们不想做的非常辛苦的工作 以后在未来还是会这样 但我确实认为这一次会完全不同

5. Some of those jobs are slowly going away, but in the near future, within two to three years, you're going to see a huge percentage of those factory jobs be replaced with automated systems and automated robots.

有些工作正在慢慢消失 但在不久的将来 在2到3年内 你会看到很大一部分 在那些工厂里的工作被 自动化系统和自动化机器人所替代

6. Automating a new product requires an initial investment which is usually quite expensive when compared with the unit cost of the product, even though the cost of automation may be spread among many products over time.

将某种新产品的生产自动化所需的前期投资 与该产品的单位成本相比 是一笔非常高昂的投入 即便实现自动化的费用 可以被以后的大规模量产平摊

7. I don't do anything. It's all automated.

我什么都没干 都是自动的

8. They're automated. I don't have to tell them to do anything.

是自动的 我不用告诉它们该怎么办

9. But that's impossible, because it's automated, it's not alive.

但这不可能 因为它是自动的 没有生命

10. I was installing the code for the kitchen automation.

我正在安装厨房自动化的代码