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It would be cool to have a phone that could be assembled 100% by a robot. You load all the parts and assemblies into the machine and out pops the finished prod
by proee 8y ago
It would be cool to have a phone that could be assembled 100% by a robot. You load all the parts and assemblies into the machine and out pops the finished product.
There is still a TON of opportunity to improve automation in modern manufacturing factories. Tesla is obviously trying to do this in a disruptive manner, and learning that in the short term it's not as easy as you might think.
However, I suspect with the model Y, they will focus on design-for-manufacturing-automation so that they don't run into the same problems as they have with the 3.
- mtmail 8y agoFoxconn is already replacing workers with robots ("Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11770463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11770463) and I'd argue so do car manufacturers for 50 years step by step. I don't know if they could reach 100%. In other industries, e.g. food processing, it seems humans are only needed to fill up the ingredients, watch monitors and do QA.