Ford invests $100M in robotic laser inspection technology

It's a laser inspection space race between Ford and Volkswagon! Whoever wins, one thing is for sure: auto cabin noise is going to be reduced. Now, if only they could work on mounting those lasers on sharks.

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"Ford Europe's manufacturing quality manager Ron Johnson says that the scanner system measures the position of 500 key points on a car to a precision of 100 micrometers, helping to correct any doors that are slightly out of position. Up until now at Ford, this judgment had relied on a human operator's viewpoint."

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