Industrial Robots
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O'Driscoll: Robots have replaced under 1% of manual labor globally
“The total number of robots in the world today, like, in total, about three million, right? And there's, you know, there's a billion people doing real work, right? So, you know, and those robots have been around, yeah, arms have been around for 20 or 30 years. …”
Amon: Qualcomm is focusing its robotics strategy on industrial automation
“That's why we're really focused on industrial robots, because you can train a robot, for example, Your task is going to go to the supermarket at night and put the stuff back on the shelf. That's a self-contained problem. You're not training a robot to do every…”
Mehr: Industrial robots surpass human kinematics; intelligence is the real bottleneck
“We have kinematic frameworks for a long time. You know, we could do what humans does in terms of kinematic freedom with industrial robots. We can actually do it more precisely with higher force with industrial robots, which was what we need in manufacturing se…”