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Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for ‘low skill, repetitive’ tasks (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by boem to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Most of the production line is already roboticised. Less with Mercedes than say VW because Mercedes sells more leather seats and walnut interiors but by and large it's mostly robots.

Apptronik says that Mercedes is exploring use cases like having Apollo inspect and deliver components to human production line workers.

...I fail to see how that isn't better solved with logistics robots on rails or wheels. I suspect it's Apptronik coming to Mercedes and saying "hey wanna try this we pay" and Mercedes says "why not" and Apptronik goes "wee, cheap publicity".