UK manufacturing’s tepid adoption of robotics is down to misplaced fear and a lack of technological literacy. And it’s holding manufacturers back. Harry Wise reports.
AI and robotics can improve productivity, competitiveness, and employee safety. Yet many manufacturers are too fearful to adopt such technologies – image courtesy of Depositphotos. A possibly apocryphal anecdote describes the physicist Michael Faraday explaining his groundbreaking work on electricity to then Chancellor of the Exchequer William Gladstone. ‘But after all, what…
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