Stopping short of a workforce takeover, supplemental robots — called cobots — are offering unexpected benefits to humans in the manufacturing process.
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(TNS) — During more than 25 years as a factory worker, David Young has seen a parade of robots take over tasks he and his colleagues used to do by hand.So Young, a machine operator, isn’t fazed by the sleek new “cobot” — collaborative robot — perched at his workstation at Kay Manufacturing in Calumet City, Ill.The silver cobot, resembling a modern desk lamp, is being trained to do visual inspections of the automotive parts that […]
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