[Matt Reiland]

Originally Posted by David Kelly

I'm sorry but real engineers that work at big manufacturing corporations harldy if ever get to touch a machine. All most of them do is draw and plan out everything for a part and/ or a system. They leave the actual machining to the union and blue collar workers.

If most people only knew how true this is for most industries. In a modern Big 3 assembly plant, an can design, program and debug, but a millwright, WEMR, toolmaker, or electrician would do any task even remotely similar to building a robot.