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For overnight shifts, it's been a thing for a long while --- the term to look for is "lights out manufacturing"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_out_(manufacturing)




100%, I have family in manufacturing and this isn't anything new. Most current manufacturing plants already run on effectively a skeleton staff vs 50 years ago.


yes, they do, that is true, however that's with [some]-axis stationary robots. Not humanoid robots literally running around. The best we can do right now afaik is that robot-dog-like thing which can overcome obstacles and be equipped with sensors. Nothing human like.

If I imagine I run into a factory full of "thinking" (current LLM level top of line benchmark) humanoid looking robots who are collaborating on tasks dynamically as needed... In my book that is as dystopian as it gets and has nothing to do with the current level of automation that's happening, that's a whole new level.


Safety standards in terms of programming and logic an OSHA are going to have to change a lot before that happens:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62286017




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