INTRODUCTION
What’s Our Role in the Age of AI?
In one corner of the BMW assembly plant in Dingolfing, Germany, a worker and robot are collaborating to build a transmission. The worker prepares a gear casing, while a lightweight robot arm, sensitive to and aware of its surroundings, picks up a twelve-pound gear. The worker moves on to her next task, while the robot precisely puts the gear inside the casing and turns away to pick up another.
In another part of the plant, where LP’s song “Lost on You” hums across the floor, a different lightweight robot arm evenly applies a thick black adhesive to the edge of small car windows. Between applications, a worker walks over to wipe off the glue nozzle, pop in new glass, and carry away the finished windows, ...
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