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Could somebody help put this in context? Is this super impressive? (to me it was) Or is this level of robot automation expected of modern manufacturing compan

• linksnapzz 5y ago
  This level of automation in fabrication is pretty common now; it used to be that all the spot-welding you saw there was done by humans. Robots are a lot more consistent. Of course, the upfront cost is higher than hiring a burly dude and giving him a spot welder to wield for an eight hour shift…
• perl4ever 5y ago
  >is this level of robot automation expected of modern manufacturing companies nowadays? "FANUC, a Japanese robotics company, has been operating as a lights-out factory since 2001. Robots are building other robots at a rate of about 50 per 24-hour shift and can run unsupervised for as long as 30 days at a time. "Not only is it lights-out," says Fanuc vice president Gary Zywiol, "we turn off the air conditioning and heat too." ...See also: self-replicating machine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_out_%28manufacturing%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_out_%28manufacturing%29