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The robots still can't.
And while the amount of automation is forever increasing, there's still certain tasks that are extremely difficult to automate. The problem is, those difficult to automate processes are often hilariously easy for humans to do. Robots are great at doing the exact same thing over and over, but throw any variability into the mix, and it's very difficult to make them able to adapt to it.
They fired everyone at Xinyi auto glass, automated the whole factory. See the Netflix movie American Factory for more info.
Cool story, but this is my day job. I very aware of what the industry trends are.
Glass is not a car. That's a few components on a car.
Yes, some processes can be fully automated. No, we can not fully automate the assembly of a whole car. It's still too complex.
One important caveat to this is that this isn't really a technical limitation, but more of a financial one. We absolutely could build a ridiculous Rube Goldberg machine of a factory that took raw materials in on end and spat out fully assembled cars on the other. And have it so automated that the place operates with the lights off.
However, it's far cheaper to build a mostly automated factory, rather than a completely automated one. It's a financial limitation, not a technical one.