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The manufacturing breakdown that snarled Model 3 output came after Musk tried to robotize its Fremont, Calif., factory to the point where it would resemble an “alien dreadnought.”

Their cut-ups, sputtering drum machines, and shreds of harsh noise are the ugly mirrors of pop music’s technological wonderland, while their lyrics literalize the horror of humans being treated as dead machines in pop-Marxist language and production styles that robotize the voice.

David Christensen, a mechanical engineering graduate student who is working on the weight-lifting project, suggested that “you could easily robotize a house plant to make it drag itself into the sunlight all the time, and that would be really cute and perhaps even useful.”

“We’re not trying to robotize the process,” Mr. Chang said.