As we are witnessing with Toyota, once again, the future of manufacturing is in robotics and artificial intelligence. A robot can replace the salesperson in any walk of life; it can be programmed to perform long or short tasks, it can be given data on where to find materials or it can pick stocks and place them in the right location. It will do all the mundane tasks associated with manufacturing and customer service like counting finished products, receipts, and inventory. All of these tasks are being done by machine vision and deep learning in a computer running the program.
This allows for more efficiency and productivity, lower costs, and fewer errors or broken machines which always leads to more profit for the company. If you think about it, without automation in all aspects of manufacturing, the company would not be as profitable as it is today. The future of manufacturing may indeed be the use of robots androids to do most of the hard work in some cases instead of human workers. Robotic automation and robotics have been discussed for decades now but humans are slow to adapt and machines are usually best at doing boring repetitive tasks.
Advances in technology, such as computer programming and deep learning and the corresponding robotics software programs can enable machines to take over some of the monotonous tasks. We live in a fast-moving world, full of new technology and inventions and this is what’s happening in the robotics industry. Advances in computer chip design and fabrication processes have led to the development of robots that can be built faster and cheaper. Software programs can also be built that will enable machines to perform a broad range of activities and perform more complex tasks than was previously thought possible. As we move into the future, we will see more automated systems and machines in all aspects of the manufacturing industry and I believe we will soon ascend to the next step – the future of robot manufacturing.