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What Molson Hart thinks about robotics

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Manufacturer and founder of Viahart, which makes educational toys. He has spent fifteen years manufacturing in China, Southeast Asia and the Americas, worked on a Chinese factory floor and built a factory in Texas, and writes about what moving a production line actually involves at molsonhart.com.

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4 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Molson Hart has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingHuman workers will still be doing manufacturing alongside the machines for decades, so robots and AI will not settle the question of where things get made.

    Their wordsEven so, the flexible adaptable human will be working in manufacturing (alongside machines) for decades to come.

    ↗Chinese Labor Isn't Just Cheaper; It’s Better. We Need to Fix That.molsonhart.com 2nd of 4 in this piece

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  3. Our readingIndustrial robots are not the fix for American manufacturing, and betting on automation misreads why production sits elsewhere.

    Their wordsAutomation will not save us.

    ↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 9th of 16 in this piece

    America

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  5. Our readingChina already installs several times more industrial robots a year than the United States does, and cheaper ones.

    Their wordsFirst, China, on a yearly basis installs 7x as many industrial robots as we do in the United States.

    ↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 10th of 16 in this piece

    ChinaAmerica

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  7. Our readingA humanoid robot is the wrong tool on a factory floor, because a machine specialised in the task beats it.

    Their wordsThey are not useful in industrial environments where, if a humanoid robot can do it, an industrial machine which is specialized in the task can do it even better.

    ↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 11th of 16 in this piece

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