Brett Adcock
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Um, they're great.
I mean, the BMW is like, if you go into like a car manufacturing company, they're like the best roboticists in the world.
There's robots everywhere.
There's like these giant 12 foot KUKA like manufacturing, like, uh, like robot arms on the floor.
They're bolted to the ground.
They're massive.
These things are carrying car chassis around like they're kids toys.
The cars are so big and so heavy, you can't, human can't hold it and pass it around.
So you basically have machines that are building the car and then moving the car.
So the whole body shop line is only automated end to end.
And it's like, not end to end, but like there's humans involved, but like the car is being like built by machines.
And then there's machines everywhere.
There's special end effectors on every machine.
They're switching things out basically in real time, like grabbing a big end effector.
The end effector is something that is grabbing a part.
These end effectors are the size of my chair.
They're switching them out in seconds.
One or two seconds.
They're doing it really fast.
And then they're basically building a car with this.