Today, in the wake of recent advances in sensors, data analytics, robotics and artificial intelligence, the automation debate is centre stage once again The world’s first industrial robot was deployed at the General Motors plant in New Jersey in 1961. A promotional film released at the time created quite a stir. People were amazed by the way the Unimate could lift, weld and spray 500lb components with such ease and precision.
Aware that their new technological marvel might trigger fears that robots were set to overrun the manufacturing workforce, the robot’s inventors stressed that their machine would only take on […]
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