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This is Atlas autonomously moving engine covers.

They’re not coming for our jobs, they’re here for them.

Because rather than adapting work areas that are compatible for humans into ones that are better suited to existing robots, they’re taking humans out of the loop entirely.

Everything about this video is making the union haters at Boeing, Amazon, and Target giddier than the invention of water bottles with big enough openings people could pee in them instead of taking breaks on the factory floor.

Industry bemoans the lack of qualified people to do the jobs they’re offering, and the people that would apply for those jobs have had the audacity to ask to be paid wages that would make living in 2024 possible. Instead, companies continue to pay a living wage that was last valid in 1994.

Robots like this, while expensive at the outset, are the answer to two problems, both how to get the work done within existing structures, and how to staff that work with people desperate enough to work for what they’re willing to pay.

The conventional wisdom on robotics is that they’re taking jobs no one wants, that they’re doing menial tasks and making it possible for human workers to be more skilled in the roles they play in the workplace.

But robots like this are designed to take automation to the next level, because a robot that can articulate and adjust its movements at this level are more than capable of doing jobs of increasing complexity, taking the most complicated part out of the process: humanity.