In a Tesla Factory up to 8 robots do up to 4 different tasks around a Tesla car

But the arms seem eerily human when they reach over to a stand and change their “hand” to perform a different task. While the many robots in auto factories typically perform only one function, in the new Tesla factory a robot might do up to four: welding, riveting, bonding and installing a component.

As many as eight robots perform a ballet around each vehicle as it stops at each station along the line for just five minutes. Ultimately as many as 83 cars a day — roughly 20,000 are planned for the first year — will be produced at the factory. When the company adds a sport utility vehicle next year, it will be built on the same assembly line, once the robots are reprogrammed.

Tesla’s factory is tiny but represents a significant bet on flexible robots, one that could be a model for the industry. And others are already thinking bigger. 

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept-robots-is-changing-global-industry.htm 

I think here we are witnessing the cutting edge of the future. The Tesla Cars now being manufactured in California are the most cutting edge vehicles presently on earth. You can take 9 of them and stack them one on top of the other without crushing the bottom one's roof. NO other vehicle manufacturer can make that statement about their vehicle. So, the Tesla may be the ultimate in vehicle safety under various conditions.

I still don't like the idea of electrical coronas surrounding me sort of like being inside my cell phone when it is on with my whole body. So, it is unlikely I would actually buy one. 

However, I admire those who do because even though they likely are sacrificing their long term health for riding in a Tesla, they are saving the rest of us a lot of money when we stop at a gas station. 

Everyone who puts solar cells on their roofs or drives an electric or hybrid car reduces the price of gas, diesel, the price of food etc. and helps make their culture more survivable for everyone. 

It is sort of like people going to war and sacrificing their lives I guess. Because you won't have to pay the ultimate price for at least 10 to 20 years from driving an electric or hybrid car.

But, eventually people will get things like blood cancers and bone cancers and brain cancers from long term exposure to electrical coronas in electric and hybrid cars. 

It's unfortunate that something like the lead cloths a dental x-ray technician installs on your neck and chest to protect you from x-rays if installed in the floors and inside of the doors and ceiling of a Tesla or other car might  protect people from electrical coronas enough to save their lives so they might live 100 to 500 years in the near or far future.

In the meantime I'm going to be driving good mileage gasoline powered cars until then.