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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, April 16th. I'm Alex Oscela for the Wall Street Journal.

Today's show is all about automation. Coming up first, the meat packing industry is embracing automation like never before

and investing billions of dollars in new technology.

W.S.J. reporter Patrick Thomas tells us how this could actually help workers who are doing

some of the toughest and most dangerous jobs around.

And then, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised to reveal the company's long-awaited robot taxi in August.

We'll find out why Musk says Tesla has an advantage over its competitors and why some investors

are skeptical from W.S.J. columnist Tim Higgins.

But first, automation has been a big ambition for the meat industry for years.

And now, as the industry is under pressure to run more efficiently, things

are changing. U.S. meat processors spend about 5% of their capital investments on advanced

automation in 2023, which is higher than it has been in the past, according to Boston Consulting Group.

W.S.J. reporter Patrick Thomas is here now to tell us what automation and meat packing plants means for companies and workers.

Patrick, more meat packers are starting to use robots.

What does automation look like in these factories?

It's really difficult to automate parts of a meat plant,

especially the bigger animals, you have a cow, you have a hog coming in in different shapes and sizes, and it can be difficult for robots to pick those carcasses apart.

So we've started to see some more automation in certain

cuts. Chickens have also been actually automated quite a bit over the last couple

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