/quote.One of the strangest things is watching one of the spot welding bays stop, red lights flashing, the feed of panels automatically pauses, all because the welding robot can tell it's electrodes are shot, it swings round to a grinding station, cleans the tips off, fires a test weld & then returns back to the panels...and the whole line shuffles into action again, no human intervention - amazing[/quote]
The human intervention was at an ealier stage when humans imagined all the things that might / could go wrong, devised solutions, specified the sensors, wrote the response programs, tested the actions, built the response devices and moved on to the next brain stressing issues. Not bad for mere humans.
