The video linked in the article looks so quaint, but it was only 70 years ago! The ladies putting in the components work pretty fast, about 5s per component fo

The video linked in the article looks so quaint, but it was only 70 years ago! The ladies putting in the components work pretty fast, about 5s per component for smaller ones, so about 720 cph. Top speed pick and place robots can now do 200k cph (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-and-place_machine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-and-place_machine) so ~300 or so faster. This increase pales considerably to any other aspect of such a process, eg cost of a transistor.