Tesla is making major changes in how their cars are made. They are using large aluminum castings for the front and rear chassis of the model Y. Previously they used about 300 stamped parts assembled by 600 robots. Now there is one part for the front and one part for the rear. It takes one machine less than one minute to make one of the castings. That’s how they will make a EV for under $30k. Innovation.
Question: who makes the robots, and are the robots maintained by other robots, and are they cheap and breakdown-proof?
Labor is everywhere in a factory, and even robots require labor from humans.