Mercedes Boots Robots From the Production Line

By
Elisabeth Behrmann
and
Christoph Rauwald
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A Mercedes-Benz S-Class on the assembly line at the company’s factory in Sindelfingen, Germany.

 Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

Mercedes-Benz offers the S-Class sedan with a growing array 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 can’t keep up.

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