For most of the modern industrial era, the hierarchy of automation was simple.
- Automation meant machines reliably performing fixed routines.
- Robotics was a sophisticated subset of automation – programmable machinery with sensors, motors and a defined task.
- Artificial intelligence was something entirely separate: a software discipline concerned with logic, reasoning and learning.
But the boundaries that made sense for the last 50 years no longer describe the technologies emerging now. Robots are beginning to perceive, classify, and adapt. AI systems are leaving screens and entering machines. And a new phrase – physical AI – is gaining ground as researchers try to explain what happens when intelligence takes a physical form. [Read more…] about How robotics is becoming a branch of AI