Quote of the day by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: "One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do" — remarks on where automation got it wrong

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been a central figure in the rise of robotics in the last decade, both as a builder of robotics, as well as a user of robotics, with the company he leads. Despite progress across the field of robotics in recent years, there are aspects of implementation that haven't always been so smooth.



The age of automation

When his past company Tesla was incorporating more automation and elements of robotics into its production of the Tesla Model 3 in 2018, the company ran into various issues.

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