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What is Industry 4.0 and What Will it do for Manufacturers?
Industry 4.0 is a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It is also know as the Smart Factory or "Lights-out Manufacturing". It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing[1[2][3][4] and cognitive computing. Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a large role in executing the smart factory as do industrial robots and autonomous mobile robots, which are
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ROS-Industrial Robotic Blending Milestone 4 – Technology Demonstration at Wolf Robotics
Awesome work done by Wolf Robotics, A Lincoln Electric Company and Matt Robinson – Program Manager of ROS-Industrial at Southwest Research Institute and his development team. This type of collaborative effort shows what robots can do in manufacturing. ROS-I will provide a non-proprietary platform to publish special applications and routines. http://rosindustrial.org/news/2017/9/7/robotic-blending-milestone-4-technology-demonstration-at-wolf-robotics
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ROBO: 2017 Global Robotics Industry Investor Report
There have been several investor indexes created around the robotics market over the past 20 years. I myself put together such an index in the 1990s which included Cognex, RVSI, Acuity, ABB, Fanuc, Adept and Yaskawa. The problem with such indexes is the components were rarely a pure industrial robotics play (exception being Adept Technologies).