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A major car manufacturer, BMW or Toyota I believe, was showing their new factory and touting how it only required 50 people to run operations for the entire fac
by yardie 15y ago
A major car manufacturer, BMW or Toyota I believe, was showing their new factory and touting how it only required 50 people to run operations for the entire factory. You underestimate the amount of labor a robot can replace. It's not 3 people but 10. Now some of that labor will be pushed up to control and maintenance but most will simply be phased out.
As well, new factories are being built around robots and their limited degrees of freedom.
- tmh88j 15y agoThere aren't too many manufacturing facilities in the US of that size that are automated to the extent you mentioned. There are many situations where it's nearly impossible to have a robot do the job such as installing wiring harnesses, installing hardware in very tight, awkward spaces, etc..(when I say impossible I mean it would cost more to develop that job than the income it generates). I've seen many cases where a human can do the job faster than a robot too. Sure, improving object design can improve manufacturability, but robots are not going to replace people entirely anytime soon in every type of manufacturing.