How 5G Will Create Opportunities And Challenges For The Robotics Industry

Thanks to recent advancements in electronics and the programmed logic that provides gadgets with an incipient ability to make decisions and take actions, humans are starting to have meaningful interactions with machines. We are on the cusp of a robotics Golden Age, which I believe will increase our standard of living to the degree that mass production, electricity and transistors did for our ancestors. The term "smart manufacturing" refers to business processes that feature machines in decision making roles. Artificial intelligence (AI) provides the decisions, and machine learning (ML) enables an ongoing refinement of those decisions based on zettabytes of data that the internet of things (IoT) makes available to a global network of devices. Improvements in computer networking technologies are key to realizing autonomy among collaborating devices, cooperative productivity featuring little to no direction from human operators.