Xiaomi’s self-optimizing autonomous factory will make 10M+ phones a year | The company says the system is smart enough to diagnose and fix problems, as well as optimizing its own processes to “evolve by itself.”
https://newatlas.com/robotics/xiaomi-dark-robotic-factory/
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From the article: The 80,000-square-meter (860,000-sq-ft) facility, located in the Changping district on the northeast outskirts of Beijing, follows a pilot smart factory in Yizhuang, which produced about a million units a year of the company’s Mix Fold smartphone.
“There are 11 production lines,” says Xiaomi Founder and CEO Lei Jun in a short video, embedded below. “100% of the key processes are automated. We developed our entire production and manufacturing software to achieve this.”
The new factory will produce Xiaomi’s upcoming foldable phones, the MIX Fold 4 and the MIX Flip – to be released later this month – spitting them out at a rate of about one every three seconds, 24/7.
Factory: I’ve realized that with some small tweaks, the phones are nearly indestructible and last 10+ years
Xiaomi: nope, you’re done. Shut it down
I get the feeling once they get the bugs worked out — and add the “factory to produce fixing bots” that works so that they don’t need people. Some shit might go down.
I feel like my Adobe products jumped the gun with the “all your work is ours” agreement that I just agreed to because I use this shit.
So,..
Mass autonomous factories who think for themselves.
What could possibly go wrong!?
Everyone touts cheap labor as why China will continue to dominate manufacturing but they are light years ahead in transportation logistics and factory technology.
“The company says the system is smart enough to diagnose and fix problems.”
Hmm. I wonder if it can fix the problem of Xiaomi being obligated to share any and all user data with the CCP under China’s Internet Security Law and National Intelligence Law.
Isn’t there a scenario called the paperclip maximizer theory where given the task of producing paperclips, there’s a risk AI will just exhaust all natural resources and cause worldwide devastation to continue achieving that task?
I’m sorry but I simply do not believe these headlines – always about some Chinese company, always some magical autonomous manufacturing, and always from some media outlet nobody has ever heard of.
Makes me wonder how far away the first clunking replicator is (I.E an automated factory capable of creating a copy of itself).
All of the required technology seems to exist now at least in prototype form, particularly with humanoid / fine motor control bots now seemingly in late development.
dont buy a xiaomi phone, mine is falling apart, also they wanna share data in EVERY DAMN APP, even in ur file manager.
Sometimes the sensors dont work, sometimes the touchscreen doesnt work. Never again.
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everyone’s been after Huawei but this is what will end the humanity, Xiaomi, this is where Skynet is going to be born!
So, basically a Chinese cauldron (from horizon zero dawn)?
Once it starts spewing sentries we are done.
So the solution to rising manufacturing costs in china looks to be removing the workers?
Interesting.
The amount of progress on new tech and developments i have seen in the news the past couple years is insane.
“Key processes”. The people making sure robots don’t run over 440 are not key processes. Lol. But seriously. In a world of hype and PR one thing I know we can trust is chinese manufacturing claims.
There are Chinese people inside those boxes! Old women, children, they never see sunlight and have to eat lint.