Industry · Healthcare Robots in Hospitals: Beyond the Operating Theatre When people think of robots in hospitals, they usually picture a surgeon at a console guiding robotic arms. Surgical robots are booming — but they’re only part of the story. Robots now carry medicines and lab samples along corridors, prepare drugs in pharmacies, disinfect rooms,

Analysis · Robotics How Robotics Could Change Manufacturing Work Factories have used robots for decades, but the way people work alongside them is changing fast. Cheaper, safer and more flexible machines — including “cobots” designed to share a workbench with people — are spreading beyond big car plants into smaller manufacturers. For the people on

Industry · Robotics Why Robotics Is Moving Beyond the Factory Floor For half a century, robots lived behind safety fences in car plants and electronics factories. That is changing. Robots now move parcels in warehouses, assist surgeons, clean airports, deliver food and work in fields — and the first humanoid robots are being sold for

The Rise of AI-Powered Manufacturing: From In-Line Computer Vision and Acoustic Telemetry to Closed-Loop Autonomous Plants
Executive Summary
For nearly half a century, the core paradigm of industrial automation remained fundamentally deterministic. Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), robotic arms…