Nissan's in-factory AI cameras track how factory workers bend, walk, and build cars

Nissan adopted AI to save time on the assembly line — then discovered its biggest benefit was worker safety. Nissan Nissan is using AI-powered cameras at its Canton, Mississippi, plant. They analyze how workers bend, walk, and assemble vehicles The company says the system has contributed to about $34 million in health and safety-related savings. In Canton, Mississippi, where Nissan assembles the Altima sedan and the Frontier pickup, there are cameras watching how workers move. The automaker says the AI-powered system is saving it millions of dollars — and ensuring that factory workers stay healthy. "We're not talking about job elimination," Victor Taylor, Nissan's divisional vice president of manufacturing for the Americas, told Business Insider. "What we're referring to are mundane tasks that are really antiquated for a human being to be performing."