I had the pleasure of touring BMW’s Welt manufacturing plant while I was there and it was the first time I’d seen manufacturing robots in action. Even standing well outside of their reach zones and behind at least two layers of fencing, their movement was terrifying. Precise, powerful and completely without any awareness of their surroundings. They remind me of horses to be honest.
All of that is to say that it seems like working on a manufacturing floor with robots has the potential to be so so dangerous. Getting into a rhythm and doing repetitive work all day, it’s easy to imagine slipping and ending up as human soup.