Robots Join Final Assembly Line At US Auto Plant

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @02:54AM from the season-one-episode-five dept.

moon_unit2 writes "MIT Technology Review has a story about BMW's new collaborative final-assembly-line robots. The move could be significant in the ongoing automation of work, as robots have previously been incapable of doing such jobs, and too dangerous to work in close proximity to humans. Robots like the ones at BMW's South Carolina plant will also cooperate with human workers, by handing them a wrench when they need it. Perhaps the next big shift in labor could be robot-human collaboration."

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Re:Coming Soon by PPH · 2013-09-17 04:11 · Score: 4, Interesting

This, from 1955:

CIO President Walter Reuther was being shown through the Ford Motor plant in Cleveland recently.
A company official proudly pointed to some new automatically controlled machines and asked Reuther: "How are you going to collect union dues from these guys?"
Reuther replied: "How are you going to get them to buy Fords?"

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