>>>IOW the "robots will eat your workplace" is scare tactics, it doesn't happen because the state-of-the-art robots are particularly good or cheap, it's because the capital, as always, wants to lower the price of labor. According to their threats, it must have happened 15 years ago but somehow we all failed to notice.
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>When a colleague visited Germany recently to collect his latest fancy pants vehicle, he reports that the production line consisted of gyrating autonomous machines overseen by a handful of boffins doing inspection and light finishing only- a far cry from his last visit. Ironically, his model boasts a hand-built engine that costs extra!
>I assume he means something like this: "Where's Waldo?"
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>IMHO Merkel has lost the plot arguing for immigration to maintain Germany's workforce, but not my business.

Impressive. Specially when I know that most of the cable bundles are prepared here, in a german-owned sweatshop.