[gilgoomesh]

It's hilarious watching $50,000 worth of robots take so long to assemble a couple dollars worth of Lego. It's like peering into the old folks home for robots.

[FirmwareBurner]

That should tell you why stuff is still hand assembled in Asia instead of by robots in the west.

[femto]

As a counterexample, I offer a pick-and-place line in action.

https://youtu.be/Ca-SoKzjh4M?t=110

SMT component placement isn't that different to placing bricks. Conventional wisdom is that if you can design a PCB that requires no manual work, its assembly cost is more-or-less location independent. SMT pick and place can hit speeds of 200,000 components per hour [1]. That's about 50 components per second.

[1] https://www.hallmarknameplate.com/smt-process/

[smikhanov]

Also why it’s OK to stop worrying about our future robotic (or AI) overlords.

[KurSix]

Give it a decade and we'll probably have robo-builders doing it faster than we can blink…

[cruffle_duffle]

I would certainly hope the laundry robots come first. Screw Lego robots and self driving cars. Please just take the laundry out of the dryer, fold it all and put it away.

[LargeWu]

First AI is creating our art and pretty soon it will be playing with our toys for us too

[Zobat]

People claim that Lego is expensive, but try buying a robot that builds Lego...

[bombcar]

You build the robot out of Lego.