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You'll never get to 100%, you still need at minimum maintenance guys for the robotics
They day will come when robots can do all the maintenance they need on each other.
Doubtful. The amount of precise manipulation needed to do something as simple as repair the feeder mechanism on a welder, is still decades away, let alone cut and install wiring, or repair a work-cell cage. While some of that is kinda possible, to be able to do it at scale and more cost effective than human labor is well into the realm of fiction, and does not reflect a realistic assessment of the state of future or current capabilities.
If robots can build cars, I'd guess they can manage that.
Building a car on a set-piece line, and recognizing a quality defect, assessing the cause of the defect, and repairing the mechanism that caused the defect are completely different engineering challenges. One is very suited towards robotic adoption, the other is not and will require robotic technologies that do not exist to be applied it ways not yet understood in a cost effective manner that has not been explained.
Robots aren't magic, they're programmed to do one thing only. Faults in machines can occur in all sorts of ways a preprogrammed robot arm can't fix. You need a human to figure it out
Robots are suited to monotonous labour, not judging situations, or more than surface level analysis of errors.