Smart robots do all the work at Nissan's 'intelligent' plant

Excellent. There will no longer be Friday Lemons unless the robots get angry for being overworked.

Smart robots do all the work

Can those robots work in the office and business to make and execute better strategy and company?

Used to teach at a high-tech fab. Workers weren't even allowed on the floor except for a weekly recalibration. There was a viewing window, and it was fun to watch the little robots darting about with their parts.

It looks like human workers are no longer needed in the future.

better start taxing companies and making a universal basic income so that these productivity gains go to people otherwise embrace mass unemployment

Artificial intelligence that creates the combustion engine .

That's very smart !

We are doomed.

It looks like human workers are no longer needed in the future.

Hopefully in the future with this tech and robotics, no humans will need to work in any manufacturing.

I hope Nissan will revive itself after all their problems. I remember the great times of the 80s/90s, the high point being the R32 GTR, Nissans best car ever. Can they get back to these times?

No humans necessary. No jobs available. Welcome to the future.

Ridiculous how it says the company is adapting to labor shortages and reducing carbon emissions by using robots to make combustion engines and not hiring human employees.

Using free plastic to make vehicle parts and acting environment conscious.

Is it biodegradable plastic ?

Just what we don't need is more cars.

Its all lies and misrepresentations for a large company to make money .

Nothing smart or intelligent about it at all.

Definitely artificial tho

Take a positive view! Someday humans will no longer have to work! We can just sit around enjoying life all day. For a while there will only be engineering jobs for designing the machines, but the machines will take that over too one day. We won't need an income because everything will be provided by machines.

Welcome to mass unemployment!!

Enjoy artificial life .

That concept is difficult to embrace.

Try enjoying and protecting whats already here .

Instead of focusing on what we don't have.

Artificially creating a recipe for disaster and naming it smart technology.

Soon it will be too artificial to be called human or man made.

Nature is fully sustainable and doesn't need humans ruining it by pretending to be the great caretaker's of the planet.

Its all ridiculous.

Given recent events, replacing Nissan executives with tech would save a lot more money and a lot more problems, than replacing the workers. Politicians aren't cheap either. Maybe we should be looking to replace them with technology.

Good for Nissan executives, but I fear for the future of humanity. So many people are out of work, and yet they say there is a labor shortage that the robots will help fill? Really? (My guess is that many ordinary people would be happy with the security of a simple job in a factory.)

Ok, but how about this?

There must be smart, automated robots making smart, automated robots in some factory, right?

Robots making robots in the dark.

That sounds like a great song title.

R32 GTR, Nissans best car ever

I wish I could click the plus sign twice for that comment. A few right hand drive R32 Skyline GTRs are on the road in California and are quite legal here. I saw one and, wow, just wow. It's on my personal Holy Grail list.

That sounds like a great song title.

Robot Love

the workers no longer own the means of production, we are post union post socialst post capitalist dystopia

Don’t blame the Nissan robots (or the cars) for taking away jobs for the millions.

I have had many cars throughout my life including several Nissans and they have been good. Sunny, Bluebird, Cube, and two Skylines, R33 GTR, & R34 GTR.

I think this is good, because there will be no need to import low payed workers from foreign countries. Though majority of people working in factory are Japanese but young Japanese people avoid factory work due to low pay. Even tiny immigration reduction is a big positive. Anything that relies on them needs automation.

SpeedToday 08:31 am JST

No humans necessary. No jobs available. Welcome to the future.

I don't think so. Somebody must design, construct and install all these robot machines and there will be regular maintenance required. There is also work like preparing all the required materials for assembling a car etc.

Also additional quality control will be necessary, you cannot expect robots to work without any production mistakes.

About jobs, perhaps less employees for simple manual work, however there will still be jobs for people with higher qualification in future.

Artificial intelligence

Should re name it superficial intelligence

Even though unpaid and relentless robots are doing the job, consumers have never seen any decrease in car prices.

We don't all need cars with all the today functionalities proposed (most will not be that useful).

When there will be no one able to build something with their own hands, we'll understand that there is a limit even to the (Eart's) sky.

I am all for robotization but not with the profit-only intent.

Domo arigato Mr roboto

Who is going to buy all the things robots make when we don't have any decent jobs or money?

We'll all be on benefits.

Doesn’t help me to buy one of their cars, so it’s completely irrelevant, if produced by amoebas, humans, robots or aliens. lol

Also additional quality control will be necessary, you cannot expect robots to work without any production mistakes.

The article says: “Up to now, people had to make production adjustments through experience, but now robots with artificial intelligence, analyzing collected data, are able to do it. The technology has developed to that level,” 

It sounds like the robots do their own quality control too.

No more need for the Eikaiwas to dispatch teachers to Nissan. The robots there can teach the "human" employees how to speak English for FREE!

So I take it Nissan has agreed to have their company tax rate increased?

Because if your not paying a bunch of humans that go on to pay income tax, then you are causing the state to lose money and people to be unemployed.

Your tax rate should probably be doubled. Maybe tripled.