Don't worry about AI taking your kid's job. The cobots'll do that...

 General Motors has gutted its electric-vehicle ambitions and killed more than 1,000 jobs at its flagship Detroit assembly plant - replacing those workers with 50 robots and sparking outrage from labor unions.

The replacement “collaborative robots,” or “cobots,” have been installed on the assembly line at GM’s Factory Zero plant in Michigan amid a sharply reduced demand for its EV models and the ensuing push to cut costs. The machines are now working alongside the 'remaining humans' there who attach the body panels to vehicles as they move down the track.

 

The automaker insists the cobots are necessary at the Detroit-Hamtramck electric-truck plant to stay competitive while improving “safety and ergonomics” for the workers.

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