For decades, industrial automation has largely followed the same formula. Production lines have become faster, robots have become more capable, and software has steadily improved, but the underlying model has remained relatively fixed: automation systems are engineered for specific tasks, making flexibility expensive and time-consuming.
That model is increasingly being challenged.
Manufacturers today are under pressure to produce a wider variety of products, switch between production runs more quickly, cope with labour shortages and integrate artificial intelligence into existing operations. [Read more…] about Intrinsic’s vision for physical AI: Building the software-defined factory