Automation & Robotics: reach out and touch the future

Posted on 15 Feb 2016 by Ruari McCallion

Will tomorrow’s factories be lights-out operations populated entirely by machines or will automation enable new heights of productivity? Ruari McCallion presses a few buttons.

According to a recent report from Barclays Bank – Future Proofing UK Manufacturing – investing £1.2bn into manufacturing processes to increase robotics and automation over the next decade could add as much as £60.5bn to the UK economy, which is equivalent to adding nearly two-fifths of today’s value of the manufacturing sector.

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