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The Robots Are Coming—and They’re Networked

The factory of the future will feature many machines working as one.

Ask any number of manufacturers how soon robots are likely to replace human workers, and you’ll get the same response: The cost of building and maintaining a fully automated facility is exorbitant, wildly risky, and off in the far distant future.

But collaborative robotics are proving that the future has arrived, and it isn’t the stuff of dystopian sci-fi. It won’t be

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