The German car company is laying off the machine staff and hiring people to assemble its customized luxury vehicles.
With the ability to choose from a variety of different design features, it robots were unable to keep up in making the cars and the firm learned that it is actually cheaper to employ humans.
‚Robots can‘t deal with the degree of individualization and the many variants that we have today,‘ Markus Schaefer, the German automaker‘s head of production, said at its factory in Sindelfingen, the anchor of the Daimler AG unit‘s global manufacturing network.