Robots are getting better at co-operating with each other: in some car plants a big robot now lifts a small one inside the vehicle to assemble components.

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The robot was encased inside a clear glass box, about fifteen feet square.

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The small robot inside the cabin makes for a "very intimate relationship between driver and car, " he says.

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