The future’s now: The shop floor robot has arms that are changed for different functions. (Oupa Nkosi, M&G) Science fiction writers predicted robots. They didn’t predict that they would look so boring. At the Africa Automation Fair in Johannesburg this week, there were no cyborgs on display, or R2D2-lookalikes scuttling between the stands. Instead, some of the most powerful machines were little more than black boxes with small screens and glowing lights, connected to a thicket of wires.
“Now you can control your factory from your phone. You don’t even need to be there,” said Unitronics salesman Dewald Potgieter.
He sells […]
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