Humans are flexible and reprogrammable in a way you can't really understand until after you've tried to deploy and work with automation. It turns out that "rob

Humans are flexible and reprogrammable in a way you can't really understand until after you've tried to deploy and work with automation. It turns out that "robots are cool" is not on the chief engineer or product designer's list of priorities. Which is why car plants use robots for a limited number of tasks, almost always involving relatively non-flexible parts that can be placed in a straightforward way. Paint shop automation is still impressive anytime I see it, even after years of watching it though.