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Hyundai signs a deal with Boston Dynamics to deploy 'tens of thousands' of its Atlas humanoid robots in its factories around the world. (futurology.today)

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Hyundai employs 75,000 people globally. Approximately half in South Korea, and half in facilities across the U.S., China, India, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Russia, Brazil, and other locations.

It will be interesting to see if these robots supplement that workforce, or replace some of them. Honda says its newest car factory in China needs 30% less staff thanks to AI & automation and its staff of 800 can produce 5 times more cars than the global average for the automotive industry.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Trump promised in his first term to bring back the coal mining jobs.

The manufacturing jobs in USA are gone forever.