An Electric New Era for Atlas

Re:An Electric New Era for Atlas by Intralexical on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @04:50PM (#40069926)

> But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly.

What can humanoid robots making car parts do, that the already-existing and already widely deployed robots making car parts can't?

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Re:An Electric New Era for Atlas by wepple on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:00PM (#40070513)

Re-tool an entire factory overnight in response to a change in design of the car, or in fact to produce airplanes instead

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Re:An Electric New Era for Atlas by ok_dad on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:21PM (#40070671)

I don’t think you understand how hard it is to retool and rearrange a factory.

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Re:An Electric New Era for Atlas by wepple on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:45PM (#40070882)

I’m saying if you have a collection of humanoids and general purpose tooling, you can adapt much faster.

I don’t literally mean retool a conventional production line in one night

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Re:An Electric New Era for Atlas by ok_dad on Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:10AM (#40073165)

So basically just robots with tools? It might work.

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Re:An Electric New Era for Atlas by ben_w on Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:55AM (#40073368)

Without knowing the specifics, that would be whichever things prevented Tesla from being run as a lights-out factory already.

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