"employing 1,000 robots at its plant.……..operated at full capacity in two-shift rotations since June 2024. One thousand people work each shift."

Humans plateau in their capabilities, robots don't. The AI that gives them their abilities gets inexorably better and better.

Car manufacturing employs 3 million people in the EU, and 1 million in the US. Xiaomi’s car factory can't make it any clearer what the future is going to be - soon most of this work can be done by robots.

When will our public discourse reflect this? Most politicians talk as if none of this is happening.

China's Xiaomi takes on Tesla, armed with 1,000 EV factory robots