According to a new report from the Asian magazine Nikkei provides a behind-the-scenes look at Sony’s PlayStation manufacturing plant in Japan. One of the most notable points is that the process of making a PlayStation console is now largely automated – it’s true, robots are building game consoles.
As the report says that there are whirring of motors inside the Kisarazu workspace where dozens of robots seamlessly churn out PlayStation 4 consoles and onely few humans were present to deal with a handful of tasks — two to feed bare motherboards to the line, and two to package the finished consoles.The actual assembly is done entirely by articulated robots, supplied by Mitsubishi Electric. The 31.4-meter line, completed in 2018, has the ability to churn out a new console every 30 seconds.This will presumably be the same manufacturing line that creates the PlayStation 5 consoles that are due for release later this year.
In addition to the new PS5, Sony will continue to manufacture PS4 and PS4 Pro models, along with the digital-only PS5 edition. Robots will make this process faster and more efficient. No one quoted in the story is worried that the robots will become sentient and overtake the factory despite outnumbering their human production counterparts by a significant margin.