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Hyundai begins using Boston Dynamics humanoid robots at US factory

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The key takeaway from the article;
Hyundai: *Buys Boston Dynamics in 2021
Trump: "We're going to bring manufacturing back to America!"
Imposes tariffs on car imports
Hyundai: OK
Deploys robots in Alabama plant to do tasks usually done by humans.
- People still have to feed the dogs and clean their poop and stuff. They just have new jobs.
  
  I mean, at some point robots will be able to do those jobs too.
Hyundai owns Boston Dynamics, so it makes sense, not that it's not an interesting story but it was the obvious end goal.
- I thought they were funded by DARPA. How is this not a national security concern…
  
  The battery! It lasts for just 1-3 hours. That’s why there aren‘t robots on the battlefield nowadays. Once the energy issue is solved this will change
Do the workers get some of those cute BD dogs for emotional support considering they’re working 24 hour shifts?
Great. So, even if manufacturing does return to the USA – the jobs will not. As everyone predicted. What is the difference if robots have all the manufacturing jobs on US soil instead of foreigners in China? Correct. There is none. Except the company has avoided paying the tariff — whose only purpose was to “bring the jobs back”.
Quite simply we must boycott any company using robotics. The Trump tariffs are an insane policy, lowering America’s standing in the world, destroying the world economy (and there will be unexpected blow back for that too) and they should be immediately reversed.
- Quite simply we must boycott any company using robotics
  What? Robots aren't the problem. The problem is the stubborn refusal to accept that we are moving to a point where not everyone will have to work and that we will have to think about how we can move on from that
- We’ve been on a trend of increasing automation for a long time, and that’s not going to change. Nor should it.
The fact that we can just look at this and just act like it's normal is wild, guess I shouldn't be surprised since it's 2025 but like...Boston Dynamics only had the dogs 10 years ago.

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