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You are right, modern car manufacturers still use humans in assembly lines.

But to see how much robots actually do nowadays, compare that to auto assembly from decades ago when robots were new, or further back when they did not exist

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Yup! And really, the highly, highly automated processes in car manufacturing are in the stamping, body construction and painting phases. Almost no humans involved in those three major phases. Final Assembly is the most labor intensive, because it involves lots of fiddly little parts going into hard to reach places. Even then, it's usually robot-assisted tasks, so one person is installing a seat, where it would usually take two, or something like that.

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