Mercedes Boots Robots From the Production Line

[Islandman]

Don1 an interesting counter-trend here. This won't apply to most manufacturing shop floors which are producing commodity items but I think there will always be a niche on the high end where the cost of heavy customization is not an issue to those consumers.

Mercedes-Benz offers the S-Class sedan with a growing array of options such as carbon-fiber trim, heated and cooled cupholders and four types of caps for the tire valves, and the carmaker’s robots can’t keep up.
With customization key to wooing modern consumers, the flexibility and dexterity of human workers is reclaiming space on Mercedes’s assembly lines. That bucks a trend that has given machines the upper hand over manpower since legendary U.S. railroad worker John Henry died trying to best a motorized hammer more than a century ago.

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[Don1]

Don1 an interesting counter-trend here. This won't apply to most manufacturing shop floors which are producing commodity items but I think there will always be a niche on the high end where the cost of heavy customization is not an issue to those consumers.



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What-a-ting when the human input is a niche element. It's very sobering since we're so far behind even in today's world....much more tomorrow's. We Black people are still focused on trying to master 20th century tech & services which are already defunct.

Every day when mi penni di trends mi yeye dem start wata.... Wuss when mi si supposedly educated people advocating doubling down on (and celebrating!) our being mere servants....e.g. serving fat tourists

If most of our supposedly educated people are so backward...what does our future hold?

Seems we're doomed to continue being mostly trinket consumers, personal servants for Babylon elements, ball players, singers, runners, entertainers....plus very avid TV & movie watchers

Dawg nyam wi suppa...breakfast, lunch & dinna