Understand the current and future research into technologies that
underpin the increasing capabilities of automation technologies and
their impact on the working world of the future.
Rapid advances in automation and robotics technologies are often
reported in the trade and general media, often relying on scary
headlines such as "Jobs Lost to Robots." It is certainly true that work
will change with the advent of smarter and faster automated workers;
however, the scope and scale of the changes is still unknown. Automation
may seem to be here already, but we are only at the early stages.
Automation and Collaborative Robotics explores the output of
current research projects that are improving the building blocks of an
automated world. Research into collaborative robotics (cobotics) is
merging digital, audio, and visual data to generate a commonly held view
between cobots and their human collaborators. Low-power machine learning
at the edge of the network can deliver decision making on cobots or to
their manipulations. Topics covered in this book include:
- Robotic process automation, chatbots, and their impact in the near
future
- The hype of automation and headlines leading to concerns over the
future of work
- Component technologies that are still in the research labs
- Foundational technologies and collaboration that will enable many
tasks to be automated with human workers being re-skilled and
displaced rather than replaced
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What You Will Learn
- Be aware of the technologies currently being researched to improve or
deliver automation
- Understand the impact of robotics, other automation technologies, and
the impact of AI on automation
- Get an idea of how far we are from implementation of an automated
future
- Know what work will look like in the future with the deployment of
these technologies
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Who This Book Is For
Technical and business managers interested in the future of automation
and robotics, and the impact it will have on their organizations,
customers, and the business world in general
