Factory Paying Human Worker to Watch Robot Worker All Day

Factory Paying Human Worker to Watch Robot Worker All Day

One of the newest roles emerging in the fast-growing robotics sector isn’t in engineering or software: it’s babysitting. New reporting by the Wall Street Journal documented the deployment of Digit, a humanoid robot, to a factory assembly line in South Carolina. For eight hours each day, the bipedal bot toils at the Schaeffler plant in Cheraw, SC, where — under the watchful eyes of a human “Agility contractor” — it operates a stamping press. For …