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Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for ‘low skill, repetitive’ tasks
Apollo’s first test will be delivering parts to the production lines.
The company says its approach instead “centers on automating some physically demanding, repetitive and dull tasks for which it is increasingly hard to find reliable workers.” The Financial Times reports that Mercedes has started trialing an undisclosed number of Apollo robots at a factory in Hungary. “This is a new frontier and we want to understand the potential both for robotics and automotive manufacturing to fill labor gaps in areas such as low skill, repetitive and physically demanding work and to free up our highly skilled team members on the line to build the world’s most desirable cars,” said Mercedes’ production chief Jörg Burzer.
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