Cheerfully trilling Kenny G tunes to warn any people of their approach, robot carts haul aluminium ingots to an automated elevator, which lifts the blocks of metal to a furnace at the top of a 12m-tall Chinese-made machine. Yet more robots take the panels to the assembly line, where hundreds of robotic arms, working in teams of up to 16, do a complex dance to weld them together into car bodies. To force the car industry to think about how to use humanoid robots with two arms and two legs, for example, government officials in Beijing told major automakers last year to rent robots and submit videos of them performing tasks in their assembly plants.
Author: Keith Bradsher
Published at: 2025-04-26 21:00:00
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