Robots are quietly lining up for factory jobs and humans may soon be outnumbered or replaced entirely

The fully robotic car plant that once sounded like science fiction is now a concrete industrial goal, with analysts expecting the first facility where machines build entire vehicles with no human on the line by around 2030.

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Nvidia’s new lineup of open-source AI models is headlined by Alpamayo 1 (pictured), a so-called VLA, or vision-language-action, algorithm with 10 billion parameters. It can use footage from an autonomous vehicle’s cameras to generate driving trajectories.

Automakers are racing to build the first car plant where robots, not people, handle every task from welding to final inspection. The vision of a fully automated “dark factory” is no longer science fiction but a concrete target for the next decade,

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Physical AI sounds like a contradiction in terms. A computer, but a body? But for the marketing architects, it’s the latest term of art, a buzzword meant to point us citizens toward a bright and promising technological future.

Alexis Munoz — a 13-year-old with wavy hair and a smile threaded with braces — ambled away from the scene and up to a busy street. A white Jaguar sport utility vehicle came into view and pulled over, its spinning cameras and sensors hinting at an empty driver’s seat. The robot car had come to take her home.