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BMW Tests AI Humanoid Robot On South Carolina Production Line
10 sats \ 10 comments \ @0xbitcoiner 6 Aug 2024 news
BMW has no timeline to integrate humanoid robots into its production lines.
https://m.stacker.news/43960
Robots have been working in car factories for decades now, starting with machines performing some welds on a General Motors production line back in 1961. Now, robots work alongside people on production lines, excelling at tasks like manipulating parts too heavy for humans to easily lift or welding or bonding with more precision than we can manage.
Those robots mostly look like big multi-axis arms, but a new breed of two-armed, two-legged robots is being tested in car factories. BMW is the latest automaker to try them at its factory in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
...read more at arstechnica.com
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0 sats \ 8 replies \ @GhostofTruth 6 Aug 2024
interesting to see that BMW is testing this technology in the United States and not at its home base in Germany. a hint?
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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 6 Aug 2024
a hint? what do you mean?
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32 sats \ 6 replies \ @GhostofTruth 6 Aug 2024
When you see the state of Germany as a business location, the massive withdrawal of capital and companies, especially to the United States, this is perhaps also a warning shot to politicians that a company like BMW is firing here.
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47 sats \ 5 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 6 Aug 2024
I am unsure if there is a direct correlation between withdrawal in Europe and hiring in the US. If there is, I believe it may be related to excessive regulation. Regarding humanoid robots, BMW has not set a specific date for introducing this type of robot into production. However, when they do, I am certain it will be more difficult in Europe. Perhaps they will build a factory exclusively for robots!
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32 sats \ 4 replies \ @GhostofTruth 6 Aug 2024
just to add some context: last year alone, 136 billion euros were withdrawn from Germany in direct investments, i.e. not via the capital market, but via corporate investments. a large proportion of this, as the statistics on onshoring show, went to the USA.
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47 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 6 Aug 2024
36 billion is a huge chunk of change, but those are business calls we can't do anything about, and that's probably for the best. Any idea if this led to any job cuts over here in Europe?
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32 sats \ 2 replies \ @GhostofTruth 6 Aug 2024
Labor market figures from the government are always very difficult to read, but I recently saw that 175,000 full-time jobs were lost in Germany in July compared to the previous year. But the trend is rising
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47 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner OP 6 Aug 2024
Are these overall figures, or are they specifically related to the automotive sector?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ContraMundum 6 Aug 2024
1984 skynet coming true! Terminator got it right.
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