ROBOTS have always been a fascinating topic for pop culture – C3-PO, RoboCop, Transformers, Baymax and the Terminator are characters that make the top lists in best movies of all time.
Although the humanoid concepts tend to be over-exaggerated in movies, robots are gaining intellectual and mechanical capabilities sooner than we realise – think the Sophia-bot. Robotics is after all, among the fastest growing industries in the world and no longer limited to the manufacturing sector. Its application now spans the service sector and even critical areas, such as the oil and gas industry and agriculture.
Today, robotics is providing a medium of integration with other technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision, among others, with its applications set to grow…
