Rasmus Smet Jensen, VP of marketing and strategy at Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR). As robots began to be deployed in automotive plants 40 years ago, experts predicted the technology would quickly transform manufacturing. That fast, comprehensive transformation, however, didn’t come about.
“The expected revolution didn’t happen,” says Jeff Burnstein, president of the Association for Advancing Automation.
But robot technology continued to improve and expand to other sectors of manufacturing and society as a whole. Call it a marathon, not a sprint, with lots of checkpoints and milestones along the way. Early Days in Automotive In the early 1980s, robotic welding applications […]
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