Here is the article about Cognitive Robotics in the industry for which I was asked to answer a few questions. The article appears in the June issue of the magazine Manufacturing AUTOMATION. Here is the title and the first paragraph.

Giving robots the ability to think and reason in an industrial environment
By Mary Del Ciancio

Imagine a manufacturing plant where robots are sophisticated enough to understand their environment and choose the best path to achieve a goal. Imagine robots capable of working together as a team to solve problems. Such robots, endowed with high-level cognitive capabilities - including perception processing, attention allocation, anticipation, planning and reasoning - would greatly expand the possibility of flexible manufacturing because they would be able to see, feel, touch and reason within the confines of unpredictable environments.

This isn’t your father’s robot.

Click here to read the rest of the article in the “Manufacturing Automation” magazine website.