reflections on automation in Italy

In Italy, thought leaders from analysis, schooling and business have come collectively to debate the way forward for automation. Gloria Sormani, Common Robots’ nation supervisor for Italy, explains extra.

When the primary cobot was launched in 2008, it got here with a imaginative and prescient for the way forward for automation. A world the place robots work round folks, and never the opposite means round. To discover how far cobots have come since then, a specific group of consultants in robotics from the worlds of analysis, schooling and business got here collectively in Italy at a sequence of occasions that began again in November 2020 and went on till Could 2022, referred to as the Basic State of Collaborative Robotics. The concepts introduced at these occasions turned the muse for a written Constitution of Concepts on Collaborative Robotics, a set of reflections on the visions, experiences, and potentialities of cobots.

Individuals on the middle of the manufacturing flooring

Cobots had been created to supply versatile automation and to enhance the way in which people work. Since these robotic colleagues entered manufacturing flooring, hundreds of firms inform a story of not solely improved working circumstances but additionally a redistribution of duties. As such, conversations about cobots have turn out to be explorations of the brand new roles that people will play on the manufacturing unit flooring and a quest to establish the abilities they should purchase for business 5.0.