Samsung Replaces Phone-Dropping Humans with AI, Slashing Testing to 2 Days
While we still struggle to get AI to write a proper email, Samsung just wiped out one of the most soul-crushing jobs in tech history: dropping smartphones onto concrete 700 times in a row. Now, supercomputers do it virtually in a fraction of the time.
Samsung Electronics deployed 517 high-performance HPC servers in its Seoul data center to power up a virtual product development system. This beast boosts computing speeds by nearly six times and scales up virtual verification by the same margin, officially kicking off their grand migration toward "autonomous AI factories."
Instead of hand-crafting expensive physical TV prototypes just to smash them on the floor, the engineers are now doing TV drop tests in a fully simulated virtual space. The next targets for this virtual torture chamber are smartphones and washing machines, which will undergo simulated crashes, heatwaves, and impact tests without a single piece of real plastic getting harmed.
This completely replaces the legendary manual quality check where unfortunate employees had to physically drop a phone 700 times from every imaginable angle to see when it finally shatters. By virtualizing this masochistic ritual through digital twins, the entire testing cycle collapsed from over two weeks down to just forty-eight hours.
The company's ultimate blueprint is to transition all its manufacturing facilities worldwide into autonomous AI-driven factories by 2030.
It seems the dream of robots doing all the hard, repetitive labor while humans write poetry is finally coming true—except the humans are just getting laid off and the poetry is still being written by ChatGPT. At least the next flagship phone will be virtually abused thousands of times before it inevitably slips out of a pocket onto real asphalt.
Source: Seoul Economic Daily
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