How are cycle wheels manufactured?

[Fastpedaller]

Robot computer build wheels are probably far better than hand built wheels.

I'll be the first to dispute that comment
They aren't stress -relieved (as far as I'm aware), so a handbuilt wheel that is stress-relieved is likely to be much better. My only experience of machine-built wheels is when I bought a new mountain bike - within a month, 3 or 4 spokes had broken in quick succession on the rear wheel. I rebuilt the rim into another hub, and all was well for years until I gave the bike away. I could have (but didn't) stress-relieve the original wheel before use. There is a caviat, in that the machine-built wheels will invariably have cheap hubs with thin flanges which (along with any lack of stress relieving) will make spoke breakage more likely.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Got to be careful with what our robot overlords come up with