Deep Learning's Impact on Robotics

It is finally resonating with me that incorporating Deep Learning at the Edge has the potential to create a paradigm shift in the way robots are deployed in manufacturing operations. FANUC's aggressive move to integrated Deep Learning technologies could revolutionize the way robotic systems are deployed. When you consider how robots are deployed in manufacturing operations today, the application programs employ traditional procedural and function programming methods. But as robots increasingly rely upon vision systems to identify and locate geometric patterns on a work piece, the logic and decision making no longer has to be all pre-programmed in order to process the workpiece. Today, every robotic application program applies the experiential knowledge of a human expert to account for every possible situation that may arise in the manufacturing operation.