How AI Builds A Better Manufacturing Process

But as for how many humans it takes to construct those 5,000 banana-colored robots a month, don't bother counting: The robots build themselves, test themselves and inspect themselves. A generation ago, many people--including manufacturing executives themselves--would've considered such a facility as either science fiction or centuries away. To be certain, FANUC's complex of 22 sub-factories is one of a kind. It's one of the world's first "lights-out factories"--where 24/7 operation is a reality and intelligent robots create computerized offspring capable, just like them, of machine learning and computer vision. But it proves just how far artificial intelligence (AI) has come in the manufacturing process.