Hyundai Unleashes Atlas Robots In Georgia Plant (interestingengineering.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/05/05/221211/hyundai-unleashes-atlas-robots-in-georgia-plant
- Source link: https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/hyundai-to-deploy-humanoid-atlas-robots
> At Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, Hyundai already uses Spot robots -- four-legged machines -- for industrial inspections. In addition, the plant features a dedicated robot that removes car doors before the vehicles enter General Assembly, and a fixed robot that reinstalls the doors toward the end of the process -- a technology unique to the Georgia facility.
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> The South Korean automaker has not disclosed how many Atlas robots will be deployed at the facility or what specific tasks they will perform. According to reports, the company plans to further expand the use of robots across its global manufacturing facilities, streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency. [...] The automaker aims to manufacture 300,000 electric and hybrid vehicles annually at the new facility. At its recent Grand Opening Ceremony, the company announced plans to ramp up production to 500,000 units over time, without specifying a timeline.
[1] https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/hyundai-to-deploy-humanoid-atlas-robots
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/24/south-korea-hyundai-us-investment.html
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Because the entire thing is promo to make it look like there's a point to humanoid robots in an industrial setting, probably.
As you say, unless it can be demonstrated that using a generalist platform is more efficient across a variety of tasks than using specific systems for each task... this is just not going to be a thing in the real world.
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Best guess I have is either testing fitment early or the bare metal doors go on for paint and all that then are assembled with all their stuff separately then assembled door goes back on.
I think it's more likely the doors and such would be painted separately but maybe for matching they all go at once?
Trump's own commerce Secretary (Score:2, Interesting)
Admitted that the tariffs wouldn't bring any jobs back because the factories would be automated. And we are already seeing that.
The tariffs are going to absolutely devastate the job market. We are going to lose a ton of overseas sales which is going to crash manufacturing. This isn't me making guesses it's exactly what happened the last time Trump started a trade war. Only last time he wasn't surrounded by yes men so he backed down quickly. The soybean Farmers he bailed out for example never got their m
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"national sales tax"
The most viable and studied such tax is a luxury tax. It has no "burden", since nobody _has_ to pay it unless they WANT to buy a luxury item. Luxury items are new items for sale at retail (read not wholesale, not used) or services (hey, do it yourself and pay no tax) bought above a person's personal poverty level. But basic necessities - food, clothing, shelter - can be had without spending in the luxury level of spending, so anyone that cares to, can go thru life without paying a
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If we are talking fantasy tax system it's obligatory Land Value Tax time which compared to Fairtax is I think the clear winner on almost all fronts. More efficient, less regressive, less deadloss and it flips the script on how to handle land use with a pretty simple change.
And I used to be a Fairtax guy, read the book and everything and LVT is the true Libertarian tax system. The ultimate and final luxury good, land itself.
At least at the time the deal with Fairtax was not that it was a luxury tax but it w
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Typical FairTax supporter, doesn't notice that the FairTax *is* a national sales tax with some bells and whistles tacked on to distract you from that ugly fact. Or at least pretends not to notice that. It's only a luxury tax if you consider living above the official poverty line to be a luxury.
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You can live well above the poverty line and not pay FairTax. Buy a used / existing house, buy a used car, buy a used cell phone, invest your money, use it for tuition (an investment in yourself) and you can be 100% (fair)tax-free. FT is only on NEW items for sale at retail and services spent above the poverty line.
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The last time he cut taxes my personal income tax went down $1,500 / yr. I'm nowhere near rich, so excuse me if I don't hyperventilate over this just yet.
And so it begins... (Score:2)
Some day will we look back on Cinco De Mayo 2025 as the date it all started?
#SkyNet
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Yeah in a couple of years, the headline will be "Hyundai rehires hundreds of humans to replace robot technology that failed to live up to the hype."
Robotic revolution (Score:2)
The only way manufacturing is coming back to the US is if they can do it cheaply, and that’s going to have to be with robotics. So either way, no jobs for Americans.
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Don't worry, they'll have to hire more Americans to fix the problems created by automation.
Re: Robotic revolution (Score:1)
What's better?
10% of the jobs coming over here or 100% of the jobs staying over there?
Considering automation has been about to put everyone out of work for the last 200 years...maybe the 10% is a low-ball estimate.
Are people really that blinkered about the strategic necessity of domestic manufacturing? Or is it all good so long as the cheap shit shows up in the amazon box?
Dey took arr jerbs! (Score:2)
I am doing a survey ... What is a job producing activity and what is a job taking activity? I mean, how do you guys differentiate between someone who is taking a job from another vs. someone who is creating new jobs and helping the economy by their existence?
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I think a good job is one that helps another, and a bad job is one that takes way the jobs of many others in order to stuff money in ones pockets. I also think that increasing productivity in general should help everybody, and not a small minority.
Re: Dey took arr jerbs! (Score:1)
Bzzt. Sorry. Those aren't your choices. Your choices are 1) bring a few jobs here and 2) keep all the jobs and profits abroad.
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With the Billionaires hovering up all of the money, I can not disagree, however, I can picture a future where All Americans and peoples in free Countries share in the vast wealth created by technology.
Run! (Score:2)
I looked at the aritcle, pix... yep, RUN!
It's 100 percent black mirror PLUS territory.
also get real I think this traces back to Godzilla, japan, no?
LIke Robots are really here?
Time to get Robot insurance? Etc?
Wtf.
But even Kurzweil said basically we'd model the technology on ourselves, necessarily because it's familiar, basically we're not creative so copy what works.
You ever see those windwalking sculptures on the windy Atlantic beaches by that Dutch guy? It's brilliant! He's even got patents now on the joi
In the eye of the beholder... (Score:3)
To me, I find robots a useful thing. Robots are why our kids are not in the coal mines, and a lost Komatsu continuous miner is just an insurance write-off compared to losing miners. A robot doing repeated heavy lifiting is a lot easier to maintain than dealing with workman comp issues or having to retrain people.
We are still wanting buggy whips, when we can jump to cars. Manufacturing jobs can be disabling, and dangerous. Moving to robotics is just better for everyone involved.
This stuff we need to embr
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You'd be correct, or at least entirely correct without glossing over a number of major problems, if we had some kind of Star Trek economy where everyone benefited from improvements to productivity. Unfortunately, instead we have late-stage capitalism where we've had a 50-year run of the ownership class taking all the benefit from technological advancement and everyone else playing musical chairs with the jobs that the demand from a withering middle class can still sustain. And these robots are going to take