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Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: At a BMW factory in South Carolina, a human-shaped robot with a screen for a face recently stepped from a charging station toward a stack of green plastic boxes. It grasped an auto part from one of the boxes, pivoted, placed the part in a ...

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When one imagines an automobile factory, one often sees a ballet of orange arms. They welded bodywork to the chain, in an almost unreal setting. The image of the "100% robotised factory" was established, thanks in particular to a Fiat advertisement for the Strada. Its slogan marked the minds: "Built by hand by robots." With such a decor, many imagine that modern cars are almost entirely produced by machines. On the ground, the reality is very di…

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Slashdot broke the news in San Diego, United States on Saturday, August 15, 2026.
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