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Innovative robotics and automation technology are helping organizations get more done, in less time and with limited facility space.

Warehousing, distribution centers and logistics companies are some of the organizations that are seeing big benefits with robotics.

According to the 2020 MHI Annual Industry Report, 67 percent of survey respondents said they believed robotics had the power to disrupt their industry and offer a competitive advantage for their organization.

Therefore, its no surprise that 39 percent of surveyed companies said theyve adopted robotics and automation. An additional 73 percent of those surveyed said they plan to add more robotics or start implementing robotics in the next five years.

Benefits of robotics and automation

Theres no doubt that robotics and automation can help organizations meet their mounting needs to standardize production and overcome challenges related to high staff turnover rates. With robotics, you can increase your facilitys outputs without expanding your physical footprint or facility size.

Robotics can help organizations with staffing challenges by offering the following:

-High staff turnover rates often mean added expenses in training and keeping a facility running at full capacity. Robotics can help reduce this fluctuation in staffing by offering a consistent and reliable work source.

-As warehouses, logistics companies and distribution centers look to streamline operations, it often means increasing the weight of fulfillment carts. This puts added strain on workers and can lead to workers compensation claims and costly time off, lowering production. Robotics help streamlines product picking and packing activities without straining employees physically.

-Robotics can assist staff members with learning efficient routes through warehouses to pick and pack products. With artificial intelligence, robotics can map out a way to efficiently pick and pack products throughout a facility. This can offer heightened job satisfaction for workers that use cobots (collaborative robots) to assist them in their daily activities, allowing them to be more efficient.

But robotics offer more than just improved staffing and a reduction in fluctuations from staff turnover. Robotics can also help facilities do more with the same amount of space. Some ways robotics help with stronger outputs despite capacity limits include:

-Better inventory management allows your organization to automate the inventory process so you have to keep less on hand.

-Set aisle sizes based on robotic width and smart technology that tells machines when another robot is in an aisle. That way, you reduce the need for two-way traffic in an aisle so you can shrink the aisle size and make better use of the space.

-Reduction in need for additional workspaces, such as electronic scales, because its built into the robots system.

Maintenance for robotics and automation

But with robotics comes new requirements for the maintenance team.

Preventative maintenance becomes increasingly more important as keeping equipment up and running is crucial to your business operations.

If the robots fail regularly, you could experience worse staff turnover rates than you did without the technology as staff members get frustrated and tired of the loss in productivity. Your organizations agility and ability to respond quickly to requests become more important than ever as you begin to rely more heavily on robotics.

To add robotics to your warehouse, logistics or distribution center operations, you need a maintenance plan that includes:

-Condition monitoring: Prepare a dashboard that shows each robots condition and expected date for new parts to prevent breakdowns.

-Work order requests: Allow staff members to make a work order request and have a process for assigning those work orders to your maintenance team for fast service.

-Reporting: Run reports that help your maintenance team see how often each robot requires maintenance so you can project and anticipate that maintenance in the future to avoid costly breakdowns.

Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) help warehouses, logistics companies and distribution centers operate efficiently while taking advantage of the competitive advantage robotics can offer.

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Investors looking for the best stock-market performance have been well-served for many years by focusing on companies using new technology to increase their sales quickly and steadily. The performance of the S&P 500 index has borne this out.

Below is a screen of 24 stocks held among five exchange-traded funds that focus on companies involved with robotics and automation booming technology for companies involved in many industries around the world.

For robotics and automation, here are five ETFs that take different approaches to playing innovation:

Heres some more information about the ETFs:

Heres a summary of total returns for the ETFs against the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY and the Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ, which tracks the Nasdaq-100 Index NDX :

All five of the automation and robotics ETFs have trailed the broad market this year. During 2020, ARKQ was a stellar performer in part because of its big bet on Tesla, which skyrocketed 743% for the year. ROBO has outperformed SPY for five years but underperformed QQQ for all periods.

The five ETFs together hold 251 stocks across 21 countries. Only two stocks Intuitive Surgical and Nvidia are held by all five. Only BOTZ doesnt own stocks in companies based in China.

China may be a special area of risk for years to come. Theres no way of knowing how much change will be brought about by Chinas regulatory crackdown affecting tech-related industries. Meanwhile, U.S. regulators actions as well as theconflictbetween U.S. and Chinese regulators over the availability of audit reports may affect investors holding shares of Chinese companies listed in the U.S.

Yet, as you will see, three Chinese tech giants held by some of these ETFs are highly regarded by Wall Street analysts.

For this screen, it is important to understand that in Wall Street parlance, there are two types of stock analyst. A buy-side analyst works for a money manager. A sell-side analyst works for a brokerage firm. They have different perspectives, and it might be best to rely on both, if possible. So the following screen starts by limiting the list to the 81 stocks held by at least two of the five ETFs described above.

Among those stocks, 70 are rated by at least five sell-side analysts polled by FactSet. Narrowing the list further, 24 of the 70 have at least 75% buy or equivalent ratings. Here they are, sorted by the 12-month upside potential implied by the consensus price targets.

Of course, consensus price targets (and recommendations) can change, and a 12-month target period is short for a long-term trend:

The prices and price targets are in local currencies where the shares are listed. The three Chinese companies on the list Baidu Inc. BIDU, Alibaba Group Holding Inc. BABA and JD.com Inc. JD area all listed on U.S. exchanges as American Depositary Receipts.

You can click on the tickers for more about each company.

Despite being held by all five robotics and automation ETFs, Intuitive Surgical didnt make the list because only eight of the 19 sell-side analysts polled by FactSet rate the shares a buy or the equivalent. The stock closed at $1,053.56 on Aug. 30, having risen 29% for 2021, and was trading ahead of the consensus price target of $1,032.71.

This list is merely a starting point for further research about companies involved with the long-term industrial shift to robotics and automation. If you see any investments of potential interest, you should form your own opinion about a funds strategy, or a companys strategy, and whether or not it is likely to remain competitive over the next decade.

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Electric vehicles are todays motherlode, and both legacy automakers and ambitious startups are investing massive sums in hopes of hitting pay dirt. Some of these will thrive (a certain California carmaker already has), and others will perish. At the moment, all are struggling with a shortage of semiconductors and other components, on top of a persistent pandemic. However, theres one industry segment thats doing very well indeed: factory equipment manufacturers that supply robots and other equipment for todays highly automated production processes. (EV journalists and suppliers of aftermarket accessories are also getting by, thank you.)

As Reuters reports, US manufacturing, in general, is enjoying a broad recovery from the corona crashnew orders rose from $362 million in April 2020 to almost $506 million in June 2021. The makers of robots and other factory automation technology have seen an even bigger surge, and demand is expected to keep climbing as a wave of new EVs goes into production over the next couple of years. Automakers have ordered manufacturing equipment for 37 EV models in North America alone, industry consultant Laurie Harbour told Reuters.

Im not sure its reached its climax yet. Theres still more to go, said Andrew Lloyd, Electromobility Segment Leader at Comau, a Stellantis-owned supplier of industrial robots. Over the next 18 to 24 months, theres going to be significant demand coming our way.

Automakers both old and new are putting money into EV factories. Automakers will invest over $37 billion in North American plants from 2019 to 2025, according to LMC Automotive, and a substantial amount of that is for EV-related projects.

This industry is the Wild, Wild West right now, John Kacsur, VP of Rockwell Automations automotive and tire segment, told Reuters. There is a mad race to get these new EV variants to market.

Theres still a pipeline with projects from new EV manufacturers, said Mathias Christen, a spokesman for paint shop equipment specialist Durr, which says its EV business grew by 65% last year. This is why we dont see the peak yet.

Manufacturing automation company Kuka (which suppliesrobots for Tesla, among others) says its order book swelled by 52% in the first half of 2021. We ran out of capacity for any additional work about a year and a half ago, Mike LaRose, CEO of Kukas auto group in the Americas, told Reuters. Everyones so busy, theres no floor space.

Automakers and battery builders need to order robots 18 months in advance, said Neil Dueweke, VP of Automotive at Fanuc America (also a Tesla supplier), which set a new sales record last year. We built a facility and have like 5,000 robots on shelves stacked 200 feet high, almost as far as the eye can see.

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Made for children from 7 to 14 years old, the Quarky AI learning companion teaches STEM skills in a fun way. Your child can learn about artificial intelligence and robotics with this gadget. In fact, this futuristic companion does so many things. It can be a gesture-controlled robot, follow commands, recognize objects, plan paths, and more. It helps children learn advanced concepts in a fun, hands-on, and engaging way. Use it with the connected and interactive online courses and live sessions thatll help kids learn to code. With a very portable size, its easy to take Quarky with you anywhere. And pair it up with your smartphone, tablet, or laptop on the go. Whether youre new to coding or an expert at it, youll love Quarky and can use Blocks or Python with it. Moreover, the plug-and-play interface offers a hassle-free setup so you can get going.

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The pandemic has changed the way many of us work, but the changing landscape of how we do our jobs is nothing new, right? Whether it's self-checkout at the grocery store or a bomb-detecting robot, the way we work is always evolving. So, what does the future look like? That is the focus of a new GBH TV series called Future of Work, which taps a diverse range of experts and workers to address critical questions about the changing nature of technology, education, the remote workplace and inequality. Executive producer and series creator Denise Dilanni joined Aaron Schachter on Morning Edition to discuss the project. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

Schachter: The opening credits series has some clips that made me laugh but ring true. Someone says robots are coming to take my job. And I wonder if that's the gist of the series I always wonder if I'm going to be replaced by Max Headroom.

Dilanni: It is not the gist of the series; it is one underlying question. The series really asks a lot of questions of the day. And one of them is, what is the role of robotics, automation and even more pressingly, artificial intelligence in terms of how we make our livings and the future proofing of the American worker? I think we've been worried about the killer robots or the rise of the killer robots for decades, if not if not a generation or more. And in fact, what we find is robots in the form of cobots actually are helping to enhance work in many, many cases. So I don't think you should worry too much about robots coming for your job and not just yet.

Schachter: You mentioned the word future proofing. Can you explain what that is?

Dilanni: What we do in the series is try to really explore what is changing work and it's not just automation and robotics. It's things like globalization and the rise and fall of trade unions and labor unions and the offshoring of jobs and the attempts to re-shore jobs. Hour one looks at all of those factors that are driving what we think of as the new industrial revolution.

What we learn from a lot of our experts in the series in the old days, you'd go to school for 12 or 16 years, you'd graduate and get a job and ultimately you would retire. And that model no longer works for most American workers. These days, you go to school, you work, then you retrain, you reskill, you work. More education, more skills, more upskilling, and you may never retire. In terms of future proofing for ourselves and our children and our children's children, what are the types of skills that we all need as workers and how [do we] future proof that set of skills so you will be employable?

Schachter: There must be some evolution of this, right? It's not like you train for one job and all of a sudden that job no longer exists. Isn't there some sort of time frame of evolution?

Dilanni: It depends on your work sector, your industry sector. I think there are jobs that are really being disrupted very quickly. In the series, we tell a couple of historical stories to set the stage. One of them is the idea that when automation came in, [the assumption was that] bank tellers lost their jobs because they were replaced by ATMs. Well, what happened? A lot of bank tellers did lose their jobs, but then banking expanded, changed and morphed with other technologies and other business practices. And now there are other kinds of jobs in banking. So, we try very hard not to look at this as a zero-sum game.

What our experts say, and we talked to a couple of very important economists and thought leaders is, we will have jobs in the future, but we're not yet sure what jobs they might be.

Schachter: The production of the series started before the pandemic and continued right after everything was all shaken up. How did that change your focus as you were creating the series?

Dilanni: It was very challenging and daunting, although quite exciting. One thing we realized and you see throughout the three-hour series is that the pandemic was an accelerator of changes that already were afoot. For instance, before the pandemic, there was already a movement to separate work from the place of work. People were working, in many cases remotely, while the pandemic came like a hand grenade and blew that up. So instead of some few million people working remotely, we have 40 or 50 million white collar workers working remotely. It wasn't a new trend, but it was escalated profoundly by the pandemic. [Also,] a reliance on certain kinds of automation as people step back from certain kinds of work because the pandemic; certain companies began looking at other ways to accelerate adoption of automation.

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Our Dexter Dread Bolts and Dreadbytes now have two full seasons under their belts in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Tech Challenge.

In this rewarding activity, 7th and 8th-grade students are faced with a challenge where they compete with other Michigan teams to earn points. Teams compete at regional events in alliances consisting of two teams. Students have to be creative and sometimes think like engineers to design and build the robot their team uses in competition.

The challenge the teams faced last year was called Ultimate Goal. During the first 30 seconds of each short but intense match, robots were only permitted to use pre-programmed instructions prepared by the team; team members could only touch controllers after that time expired. Clever student-built robots worked to move swiveling pegs into the predetermined target zone and then placed rings on them. Rings were also used to score points by being shot by the robot into the goals on the far side of the field. The last part of the match (known as the end game) challenged robots to carry or place swiveling pegs back at the starting point or in specially designated portions of the playing field.

Even though the Covid-19 pandemic, the Dread Bolts and Dreadbytes continued to advance their knowledge in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) and made adjustments to keep everyone safe at this uncertain time. Students and mentors gathered on Zoom calls rather than in a build space and passed the robot from house to house. Team members said, Were thrilled to have a working robot and that we still learned a lot!

The Dread Bolts and Dreadbytes worked together with their teammates to create an outline of the different manipulators and parts the robot needed to complete the task such as chassis, loader, conveyor, and shooter. The students also divided their team members into roles and subteams that focused on tasks like build, software, and drive. While prototyping the bot and its manipulators, other students focused on brainstorming and strategizing. After prototyping, the students decided on a final idea and began building, wiring, and programming their competition robot.

As competition season approached, teams finished preparing their bot and packed everything needed for the matches. Competitions run throughout the day and are typically in a large school gym. Every team in the competition has its own stand/dugout and most teams have unique buttons you can collect as you meet other competitors. Although health precautions are still in place, these roboticists are now more excited than ever to work on the robot in person this year.

If you have any interest in joining (or know someone who should), the FIRST Robotics Challenge is for high school students (Dexter High School is home to team 3656, the Dreadbots), FIRST Tech Challenge team is for middle school students in the 7th and 8th grade, and FIRST Lego League has members from Kindergarten through 6th grade. Please email DexterDROIDProgram@gmail.com for further information regarding current and future teams along with volunteer opportunities for parents to be involved in the program.

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It has long been known that making eye contact with a robot can be an unsettling experience. Scientists even have a name for the queasy feeling: the "uncanny valley".

Now, thanks to researchers in Italy, we also know it's more than just a feeling.

A team at the Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa has shown how a robot's gaze can trick us into thinking we are socially interacting and slow our ability to make decisions.

"Gaze is an extremely important social signal that we employ on a day-to-day basis when interacting with others," said Professor Agnieszka Wykowska, lead author of the research published on Wednesday in the journal Science Robots.

"The question is whether the robot gaze will evoke very similar mechanisms in the human brain as another human's gaze would".

The team asked 40 volunteers to play a video game of "chicken" - where each player has to decide whether to allow a car to drive straight towards another car or to deviate to avoid a collision - against a humanoid robot sitting opposite them.

Between rounds, players had to look at the robot, which would sometimes look back and other times look away.

In each scenario, the scientists collected data on behaviour and neural activity via electroencephalography (EEG), which detects electrical activity in the brain.

"Our results show that, actually, the human brain processes the robot gaze as a social signal, and that signal has an impact on the way we're making decisions, on the strategies we deploy in the game and also on our responses," Wykowska said.

"The mutual gaze of the robot affected decisions by delaying them, so humans were much slower in making the decisions in the game".

The findings have implications on where and how humanoid robots are deployed in future.

"Once we understand when robots elicit social attunement, then we can decide in which sort of context this is desirable and beneficial for humans and in which context this should not occur," said Wykowska.

According to a report by the International Federation of Robotics, worldwide sales of professional service robots had already jumped 32 per cent to $11.2 billion (9.4 billion) between 2018 and 2019.

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Do you know? According to the latest report from 2020 to 2027, the global space robotics market is likely to surge at a growth rate of 5.2%. This is due to the growing demand for autonomous space robots that are not only cost-effective but are also capable of working even in any kind of conditions. As exploring outer space has always been an interesting area, many researchers across the globe are working on robots in space and their benefits. Lets explore the latest robots in space in this article.

Vyommitra is a humanoid robot made in India. This robot is designed for an ambitious project of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the Gaganyaan mission. This first human spaceflight program is scheduled for 2022. This is one of the latest robots which can perform all crew procedures like environmental and life support systems monitoring.

This is going to be one of the robots in space that can mimic certain astronaut postures, which are essential during the launch. ISRO researchers are also working to make Vyommitra able to chat with fellow astronauts.

Deep Autonomy of Lunar Underground Structures (DAEDALUS) is designed and created by the European Space Agency which looks like a hamster ball that is equipped with a stereoscopic camera, a radiation dosimeter, temperature sensors, and 3D mapping LiDAR device.

Kibo is one of the latest robots which was developed by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and launched the second Kibo Robot Programming Challenge (KRPC) in March. The goal of this challenge is to allow scientists on the ground to capture images and video remotely using a robot that can travel around in space autonomously and capture still and moving imagery.

Rosalind is developed by the Roscosmos agency in Russia in collaboration with the European Space Agency. This is one of the latest robots designed to navigate across Mars autonomously. This rover mission is scheduled for 2022 having two pairs of cameras (NavCam and LoCam) helping the rover prepare a 3D map of Mars terrain. The rover is also equipped with PanCam Optical Bench with two wide-angle cameras for good color resolution imaging.

Perseverance rover has been landed on Mars in July 2020 which has a sensitive microphone to record the sound of its movement over the hard martian surface. This rover has recorded the first bump of the robot with six wheels that beamed back to earth.

Perseverance Rover provides an easy way to conduct research with the help of a stereoscopic imaging system, a Raman spectrometer for mineralogy, microphones for sound recording and to process real-time data.

Change 5 is a robotic spacecraft that was launched by China. It is the first of its kind robots for asteroid mining in 2020. This robot has also collected rocks from the Moons surface. China is the third country after the US and Soviet Union to collect rocks from the moon.

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Software industry veteran and ex-Google exec Victor Lin to head engineering and computer vision teams as Symbio adds highly experienced leaders to accelerate company growth and scale

EMERYVILLE, Calif., September 01, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Symbio Robotics, a pioneer in the future of industrial manufacturing through a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and industrial robotics, today announced the addition of key executives to its leadership team. On the heels of the companys official launch in February 2021, armed with $30M, Symbio is quickly focused on expanding its team to meet tremendous customer demand for its SymbioDCS framework. The expansion of its leadership roster and appointment of four new vice presidents demonstrates strong momentum, growth trajectory and Symbios deep commitment to serve as a leader in modernizing industrial manufacturing.

"Symbio presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to apply my experience to ignite a new wave of innovation in the industrial manufacturing space," said Victor Lin, Vice President of Engineering, Symbio. "The company is incredibly well-positioned to fundamentally change this decades-old industry by utilizing new software and AI technology developed for Internet, SDN, and robotics."

Symbios growing leadership team

Victor Lin, a software engineering pioneer, joins Symbio as vice president of engineering after a decade at Google and an earlier career in networking and semiconductor startups. While at Google, Victor worked on a number of groundbreaking products, such as Google Assistant and Google Air, and Software Defined Network. Victor will be responsible for scaling the engineering organization and culture and leading the strategic technical vision.

David Wong joins the growing executive bench as vice president of finance. with 20 years of global experience in finance and operations. In his early career, he was a Big 4 Accounting Manager for technology, media and entertainment startups in Asia, the UK, and San Francisco. For the past 5 years, he has held a variety of Finance roles at high-growth startups including Planet.com, and most recently Zipline, where he led the company from its Series C to Series E. David will play a pivotal role in Symbios growth and funding milestones.

Patrick Pylypuik has been tapped to be Symbios vice president of sales. As a technology and manufacturing sales industry veteran, Pylypuiks team will support company growth by building key relationships with new and existing customers-- including partners. Before joining Symbio, Patrick was vice president of sales and marketing at autonomous vehicle supplier NAVYA Group. He also held executive sales and COO positions at Kibo Partners, B2X Global Group, Blackmore Partners, Inc., and Fullfillment.com, amongst others.

Cassie Roblin, a key partner in Symbios initial growth phase, has been promoted to vice president of people. Moving forward, her role will focus on accelerating Symbios growth and impact through targeted recruiting and a people-first approach to HR. Cassie will build around the exceptional team at Symbio, and will make Symbio the epicenter for engineers working in industrial robotics, edge computing and AI. Before discovering her love of startups, Cassie recruited globally for technology, financial services and media companies, including the NBA, Pandoras early team (when it was called Savage Beast), NBC Universal, Charles Schwab, Polycom, and Microsoft among others.

"At Symbio, we are laser-focused on breathing new life into existing industrial robots, making them faster, more capable, and more flexible," said Max Reynolds, Symbio CEO and co-founder. "Each one of these new executives brings a breadth and depth of experience that will help energize our entire organization to sustain our momentum and keep pace with our continued growth in the market."

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In addition to these leadership hires, Symbio is expanding its team of engineers and program managers with aggressive hiring goals in those roles. More information on open positions can be found at https://symb.io/company/careers/.

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Symbios focus is on providing generalized solutions that enable companies to adopt AI as a core competency, as opposed to the traditional automation approach, which is to provide a custom solution to a specific problem. This means that AI solutions will look very different because its not just about creating the automation, its about creating and providing the tools that empower teams to design their own solutions through the use of AI, and easily adapt to the task at hand.

SymbioDCS, the companys robot agnostic platform runs on edge computing infrastructure through industrial networks to inform and instruct current factory systems to make final assembly tasks available that were never automated before. This allows, for the first time, the development of new sets of applications and programs that can inform and instruct current factory systems to perform more complex and dexterous tasks, in addition to improving automation that already exists like door, wheel and windshield assembly, fastening, welding and painting.

Symbio currently is working with top brands including Ford Motor Company, Nissan Motor Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation in addition to other major companies and outside of the automotive sector.

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Founded in 2014, Symbio Robotics is dedicated to strengthening and revamping the fundamentals in industrial manufacturing through the creation of Al and Robotics technologies. Located in Emeryville, Calif., the companys core product, SymbioDCS enables automation teams to build and deploy high-quality applications in any factory, at any scale that can assemble anything.

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UK manufacturers are increasingly interested in robotic automation, as the impact of Covid-19 and Brexit hits the labour market.

It comes amid a background of reduced production capacity firstly due to lockdowns and social distancing measures, and subsequently by labour shortages due to Brexit. When asked whether the pandemic has been game-changing for their business, 90.8 per cent of the respondents said yes.

Part of the problem was a lack of contingency planning. Research by the CIPDs People Management magazine found that two in five organisations had no plans in place to manage the outbreak, and now theyre scrambling to adjust to the new normal.

Robots are seen as a potential solution 48.8 per cent of respondents said they were likely to invest in automation in the next five years, and 50.4 per cent said robots would help them comply with social distancing requirements. Health and safety rules and staff shortages were other considerations driving the increased interest in automation.

The huge impact that COVID-19 has had on the economy will be felt long after the virus has gone and will permanently influence the way businesses conduct themselves moving forward, says Nigel Platt of ABB Robotics. The inherent flexibility and high performance of todays robots, coupled with the expanding range of options on offer, from small cobots through to heavy duty industrial robots, enables manufacturers to better prepare themselves against future uncertainties caused by impending pandemics or economic instabilities.

Those already using automation cited flexibility and consistency as key benefits. While the UK has lagged behind other countries when it comes to embracing robotic automation in manufacturing applications, those companies that have made the switch to robots have reported a range of benefits that underline their ability to transform productivity, efficiency and competitiveness, says Julian Ware, a sales manager at ABB. The results of our survey provide hope that these benefits will be realised by a growing number of companies in the next few years as robotic automation becomes recognised for its ability to provide a greater degree of certainty in challenging times.

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