Mercedes-Benz offers the S-class sedan with a growing range of options such as carbon-fiber trim, heated and cooled cupholders and four types of caps for the tire valves, and the carmaker's robots simply can't keep up.With customization key to wooing modern consumers, the flexibility and dexterity of human workers is ensuring their dominance once again on Mercedes's assembly lines.
"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, Germany, the anchor of the Daimler unit's global manufacturing network.
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