Making Industrial Robotics Smart

 Artificial Intelligence  

A major Japanese industrial robot maker is pushing to make their machines smarter, partnering with a Tokyo-based firm specializing in machine learning.

Industry is a major force driving the need to create smarter machines, but as companies vie make their robots smarter, they also push the rest of the field forward.

FANUC, a Japanese industrial robot maker is already at the forefront of the industry, just took another step forward by closing a partnership deal with Preferred Networks, a Tokyo-based firm specializing in machine learning.

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Preferred Networks has also just struck a deal with Panasonic to develop driver assistance systems and consumer electronics products.

"We can drastically change the nature of industrial robots, which are currently bound to follow rules set by humans."

Fanuc said it plans to enhance its robots using the venture’s machine learning software.

“With PFN, we can drastically change the nature of industrial robots, which are currently bound to follow rules set by humans,” said Kiyonori Inaba, general manager of the robot business at FANUC.

Equipped with deep learning artificial intelligence technology, robots may eventually learn by themselves how they should perform a specific task, rather than the current method of using a hard coded, inflexible program. This type of artificial intelligence isn’t just expected to optimize how work is done, it will also make it possible for machines to configure themselves and diagnose their own errors in the not-to-distant future.


SOURCE  Wall Street Journal

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