Making Dumb Industrial Robots Smart Helps Them Work With Humans
Professional Development for Our Robot Replacements
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Forget robotic vacuum cleaners, medical assistants or butlers, for now industrial robots represent the greatest slice of the $34 billion global robotics market.
The classic industrial robot is a deaf and blind arm carrying out repetitive tasks reliably without a break. That also means they must be fenced off from people working on factory production lines, in case the humans inadvertently get in the way and are harmed.