"The army of millions and millions of people screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America."
  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    Apparently jobs like that, which require fine motor skills, are extremely difficult to automate.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Musk has quite famously admitted that robots can’t do everything, and humans are extremely good at problem solving.

    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Weird. Not like pcb fabs haven’t been doing that for ages. And not necessarily the solder flood type chip mounts either.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        Pick and place machines are one thing, but plugging in tiny connectors, screws that need a little wiggle to go in the hole, things like that are a different story.

        • mle@feddit.orgEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Probably also a factor is that you would be spinning up a whole production line and automation systems for phones that will only be in production for 12 to 18 months, after which you’d have to adapt or redo everything for the new model.