By Carole Ann Goldsmith Copyright © 2013 All Rights Reserved
The auto assembly line in southern Japan was quiet as night manufacturing was no longer operating due to the cut back in demand.
The giant auto robots were standing idle until their work started the next morning at 7 AM and finished at 7PM. No breaks for robots, humans worked them constantly except for maintenance time, once a week.
A lone operator entered the plant with his security pass and started talking to the robots. Yes they all have names - given to them by the plant's workers. Thunder was the largest robot standing ten feet tall with eight feet long steel arms to work on the auto's components.
Working on the main computer, the operator adjusted the robot's command in this plant as well as in the plants in New York, Tokyo and Hamburg.
With the company's global cutbacks, the operator had been retrenched and he was getting revenge - big time.
Thunder was the first to move and followed quickly by the other 20 robots at the Japanese plant. The robots also moved in the other plants around the world with arms flashing and red lights shining from their heads.
More to come
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