How are machine-built wheels made?
 

I'm having a hard time picturing a machine doing everything involved with building a wheel -- taking a rim, weaving spokes, adding oil, faniggling nipples on the ends of spokes, doing all the adjustments and checkings to true the wheel, etc.

Is it really 100% machine built, or does that mean a machine just did part of the work somehow?

Any decent Seasame Street youtube videos showing a production line of machines building wheels? It sounds like something that would well for that format.

Google machine built bicycle wheels. Lots videos.

They're not 100% machine-built. It just means the spoke tensioning and truing weren't done manually. The "How It's Made" video below shows wheels being made, including manual and machine spoke tensioning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYUOLGEPw9Q

There are plenty of other videos, too...

https://youtu.be/Am_8X8BnY7o
https://youtu.be/5lGKdRxdYKI
https://youtu.be/EITEQLn8SUE

Quickly. Very quickly.