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The idea of using humanoid robots in the automotive industry has always been a bit confusing to me. Automobiles are all the same within a model and are built on
by elil17 2y ago
The idea of using humanoid robots in the automotive industry has always been a bit confusing to me. Automobiles are all the same within a model and are built on an assembly line, so they are well served by robots with fixtures specialized to each production step.
Wouldn’t a humanoid robot be better suited to factories with batch processes or engineered to order products?
Would be curious the hear the perspective of anyone in the automotive industry - do you see humanoid robots being useful in your industry?
- martythemaniak 2y agoWell, nobody can answer that question because humanoids don't exist. That is, the only way to get that answer is to actually try it out. Broadly speaking, humanoid robots like this should be the "worse is better" kind of tech. They're cheap ($20-30k at scale or like $1/hr), imprecise (cm vs mm), weak (manipulate several kg) and flexible. The question is where in the factory can you take advantage of this kind of labour or can you redesign your process to take advantage of it.