When your new co-worker is a robot

At a Wisconsin factory, managers who can't find reliable workers are staffing the assembly line with machines. The workers who remain say it isn't necessarily a bad development.

Man and machine working side by side at a factory.
(Image credit: AP Photo/John Minchillo)

The workers of the first shift had just finished their morning cigarettes and settled into place when one last car pulled into the factory parking lot. Out came two men, who opened up the trunk, and then out came four cardboard boxes labeled "Fragile."

"We've got the robots," one of the men said.

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