State-of-the-art robotics technology has essentially been stagnating over the past decades. It offers solutions that are remote to humans, extremely expensive and non-flexible; suitable only for precise positioning (e.g. setting spot welds), programmed to predefined paths (e.g., painting) and behind safety fences. Technically speaking, advanced industrial robots are positioning machines far away from the idea of what a robot can and cannot do. To unleash the original purpose of robots, along with safely supporting humans, serving their needs and desires, and relieving them from laborious and possibly dangerous work, the traditional concepts had to be overthrown……..
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