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Hyundai’s new EV factory is teeming with robots — and wariness about the future
“This is a real-life factory of the future.”
One building houses a $4 billion battery plant, a joint operation with South Korea’s LG Energy Solution, that plans to begin supplying cells for Ioniq models next year. The dexterous biped bots — whose ability to cartwheel, breakdance, and barrel roll already outdoes most auto workers — appear outwardly friendly, but will strike any sentient human as a potential Terminator of jobs. For tariff proponents, the Metaplant might be a $7.6 billion lesson in reality: No American factory can screw together a single car without some share of imported parts, including from a China that holds a near-monopoly on several raw or processed battery materials.
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