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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I see no reason why a robot with at least as much dexterity, tactile feedback, precision, etc couldn't be manufactured. In my view, any assembly process that requires humans to manipulate materials is an engineering failure.
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You have to factor in quantity.
Assembling one unit of something means that automation likely is not cost effective. This isn't an engineering failure.
Only when a task is done enough times, does it become cost effective to automate it.