Automated assembly systems and pick-and-place applications
Industry 4.0 is a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It is also know as the Smart Factory or “Lights-out Manufacturing”. It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing[1[2][3][4] and cognitive computing. Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a large role in executing the smart factory as do industrial robots and autonomous mobile robots, which are […]
We talk a lot on this blog about the important global social and economic transition now underway. It is very disruptive, and it has only just begun. Over the coming years, many human jobs will become obsolete. Policy makers need to be thinking about how we make this transition as a global society and have […]
