China is switching off the lights. Not to save energy- because humans no longer work there.
They call them ‘dark factories’, plants so automated they run without illumination.
Zeekr International produces 800 EVs daily this way. Robots assembling cars in darkness, guided by infrared, 24/7. What Tesla took a decade to achieve in production capacity, ZEEKR managed in three years. The difference? No light bills. No shift changes. No humans.
China installed 50% of all industrial robots globally last year. Every second robot on Earth now works in Chinese darkness.
Still needs humans for the cable work… fingers remain unmatched. They work in pools of light, islands in an automated ocean.
The future has an aesthetic: it’s darkness, punctuated by the occasional human, checking if the robots are okay.
