Human vs Machine: Robots on The Assembly Line

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(Bloomberg) -- One of President Donald Trump's biggest priorities is to bring manufacturing jobs home, and advances in industrial automation are making it cheaper and easier to do that. But a plant full of robots requires fewer workers. This week Bloomberg Technology's Alex Webb takes a look at whether these factories of the future could still give a boost to communities in the heartland.

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To contact the authors of this story: Alex Webb in San Francisco at awebb25@bloomberg.net, Brad Stone in San Francisco at bstone12@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Pia Gadkari at pgadkari@bloomberg.net, Liz Smith