Did We Celebrate Autonomous Quality Inspection Too Soon? – Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine

In many industries, advocates of artificial intelligence and autonomous technology are quick to promise sweeping transformation and fully autonomous solutions. However, the optimists usually promise more than they can deliver and soon find the engineering challenges are greater than they first realised. In this article, Zohar Kantor, vice president of sales at artificial intelligence start-up Lean.AI, asks whether we celebrated the arrival of autonomous quality inspection too soon. In 2013, Elon Musk said, "it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars." Although the world of driverless vehicles has moved on significantly since this admission, it was a belated recognition that the Tesla CEO had under-estimated the challenges of operating a vehicle without a human being in the driver's seat.