Cobots are set to revolutionise manufacturing
Summary
Some tasks are deemed as too dangerous or laborious and repetitive for humans (example - inventory counting) to carry out and this is where robots can deliver immense improvements in efficiency and accuracy. I think, therefore, that as opposed to an either/or situation we will see an increasing number of use cases where humans work closely with a robot to create products or perform tasks together. The majority of industrial robots deployed in manufacturing facilities are expensive, static, large and perform a specific function very effectively. These systems will be connected inside the factory and there needs to be protection against hacks caused either accidentally or deliberately from someone or something gaining access to the cobot directly or via a network. For latency, network availability and privacy reasons, robots will usually use local computing resources as opposed to accessing the cloud.