GM Added 50 Robots To A Plant Where It Just Laid Off Over 1,000 Workers

After Layoffs, GM Ramps Up Robot Usage at Factory Zero, Sparking Union Anger

GM is installing new collaborative robots (or cobots) at its Detroit Hamtramck electric truck plant, where the GMC Hummer, GMC Sierra EV, and the Chevy Silverado EV are built. The decision comes after the Detroit carmaker laid off over 1,000 workers, drawing the ire of the UAW. The times are changing, and the advent of robots and artificial intelligence threatens the jobs of millions. This has been a perennial theme for the past decades,... (co…

GM, UAW face sudden high-stakes factory rift

General Motors (GM) has installed new collaborative robots—known as “cobots”—at its Detroit-Hamtramck Factory Zero plant to modernize production, but the move comes at the same facility where it has already laid off 1,000 workers. GM claims the cobots will improve…

GM Added 50 Robots To A Plant Where It Just Laid Off Over 1,000 Workers

GM has installed roughly 50 new robots at its Factory Zero plant in Detroit. The robots work alongside humans and help to attach body panels onto cars. Factory Zero site has been hit with layoffs and multiple production pauses. It appears that some robots at GM’s Factory Zero are getting better treatment than the people who build cars next to them. Weeks after GM softened its EV commitments and laid off more than 1,000 workers at the site, the c…