Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Physical robots have been around for almost a hundred years, but not without their limitations. In the 1990s the idea of the collaborative robot, or cobot, emerged to help find ways to put robots in closer proximity to humans, but it is only through the inclusion of AI that robotics can continue to progress. While the term robotics conjures up visions of hardware machines performing a wide range of tasks, the term robot is now used to describe any sort of software or hardware-based automation that can perform a task. However, many of these software robotics systems are limited in their ability and are not able to communicate with other systems or robots to carry out these tasks. With the addition of machine learning, robots and cobots can improve their communication and handle even more complex tasks without the normal risk assoc...