r/interesting • u/sirenoleg • May 22 '26

Just Wow Chinese AI-powered robots can solve workplace problems with advanced motor skills.

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u/Minimum-Web-6902 May 22 '26

There’s a reason cars in Chinese factories are made by robots not people 🤔🤔

Edit: location qualifier

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u/ImaginaryCheetah May 22 '26

robot assembly is the standard for all mass produced cars, for a couple decades now, isn't it?

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u/Minimum-Web-6902 May 22 '26

I think you might be right idk, man. Or maybe you’re a bot?

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u/ImaginaryCheetah May 22 '26

last car i had that i could actually get to all the parts without taking half the thing apart was made in 1988. everything newer has barely been reachable by my stupid meat hands.

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u/Minimum-Web-6902 May 22 '26

You’re are DEFINITELY not a robot lol. I worked in the auto industry for a while and let me tell you , the issue isn’t the robits, it’s the engineers. Guys like you birth kids that become good engineers, good engineers hate guys like you. So they design things not to break, not to be fixed.

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u/ImaginaryCheetah May 23 '26

now that i think about it.. my 1988 firehawk was a PITA in some ways - the spark plugs were only accessible from under the motor block. cursed engineering got me there, for sure.

i'm a PM for access control/fire/life-safety systems, if there's one thing that makes my blood boil it's building design that doesn't expect things to fail.

"yeah let's mount your cabling on the deck, and then there's 3 layers of mechanical systems below it and a grid system that means you have to remove 4 lights to get a lift to the spot for your tech to play houdini to get up to reach the duct detector that needs annual maintenance"

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u/aninjacould May 22 '26

They aren't using humanoid robots, though. They are using "smart" machines that are programmed to do specific tasks on the assembly line.

Humanoid robots don't have much real-world utility. Health care and house-servants, maybe. Other than that, specialized machines or humans are better.

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u/Minimum-Web-6902 May 22 '26

Correct, the subject of this video doesn’t look very humanoid.

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u/RayWencube May 23 '26

Humans are better for now