Pick and place machines are one thing, but plugging in tiny connectors, screws that need a little wiggle to go in the hole, things like that are a different story.
Probably also a factor is that you would be spinning up a whole production line and automation systems for phones that will only be in production for 12 to 18 months, after which you’d have to adapt or redo everything for the new model.
Apparently jobs like that, which require fine motor skills, are extremely difficult to automate.
Use the same cameras and AI that Musk said were gonna fully automate Tesla
I don’t want my iPhone to get the build quality of a motorized dumpster
Musk has quite famously admitted that robots can’t do everything, and humans are extremely good at problem solving.
Weird. Not like pcb fabs haven’t been doing that for ages. And not necessarily the solder flood type chip mounts either.
Pick and place machines are one thing, but plugging in tiny connectors, screws that need a little wiggle to go in the hole, things like that are a different story.
Probably also a factor is that you would be spinning up a whole production line and automation systems for phones that will only be in production for 12 to 18 months, after which you’d have to adapt or redo everything for the new model.