Audi’s New Fleet of Robots Will Supervise Its Local Mechanics
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Audi’s New Fleet of Robots Will Supervise Its Local Mechanics
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/audi-ro...e-dealerships/
Can they have some to supervise the sales staff?
Can they have some to supervise the sales staff?
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What a bunch of crap. Nice way to waste money that will eventually trickle down to higher prices. I would love to see the laughing faces of mechanics when that robot trips on something in the shop and falls over. What is this world coming to?
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I don't think it is a bunch of crap at all. if used correctly, it should help in terms of diagnosing tricky service issues.
Rather than a local tech making a call to Audi and trying to explain the issue over the phone, they can show it to them in real time
Rather than a local tech making a call to Audi and trying to explain the issue over the phone, they can show it to them in real time
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Aside from the knee-jerk repsonse jokes, after watching the video, I think this will be an excellent tool for the techs. Not sure the robot camera as configured could physically see everything on or in the car the service tech can but it does give a direct, remote communication to a master tech.
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Yep, just what we need - robots tripping over crap and banging up our cars - and dealer techs who don't know how to measure rotor runout
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On top of this, they want those things zooming around shop floors? this think will flip over on the fist pebble. I want to see them run in winter with salt all over the place. Its a liability waiting to happen.
Until they have anti gravity bots flying around I can't see this sort of thing taking off.
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Hmm, an IPad. I can just see it now since there's prob just one master tech per shop. "Hey Joe, have you seen the service iPad?" "Mike, I think I left it in that A6 I was working on this morning". "Well, Joe, that customer just drove off with it".
BTW, "Dude"??
BTW, "Dude"??
Last edited by snagitseven; 06-20-2014 at 06:25 PM.