how come welding is so tough to automate (how come there’s lots of welders, but factory work was automated)
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Most welding is automated.
But you have the same issues as with any production: using expensive tooling/robots is only efficient if you are producing a large number of items with the same dimensions.
So random T metal bars and shit that are mass produced will be welded with machines/robots.
But if you want to weld together stuff on a building site? A trained human is muuuuch cheaper and faster than setting up a welding robot to find its way around in 3d space.
Welding that happens in factories is automated to a large degree. Only welding in factories that isn’t is when you need to frequently weld different things, so setting up a welding robot makes no sense, or when the shapes are kinda convoluted where it is again cheaper to use the humans brain than trying to make an AI robot welder.
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