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I find the fact that some of these jobs are still not effective to be done by robots fascinating. At what point will we automate those jobs as well? Is it just

I find the fact that some of these jobs are still not effective to be done by robots fascinating. At what point will we automate those jobs as well? Is it just the cost/benefit ratio is wrong currently? I cannot believe that it's strictly impossible to make a robot that can do all those task.

mikeyouse 10y ago
At the time, most of the human workers were doing things that required significant dexterity beyond the ability of the robots. Taking a wiring harness; https://i.imgur.com/H3XVf92.png https://i.imgur.com/H3XVf92.png Routing it through the firewall and then making a dozen connections is simple for a worker, but extremely complex for a robot. That factory was turning out 1 car/minute, so the $30/hr guy plugging harnesses in would add maybe $0.50 to the cost of the car? When you're selling vehicles with MSRPs over $40k (this was a large SUV assembly facility), the threshold for automating something is higher than you might expect.