Care robots are robots that assist healthcare workers. Care robots are designed to carry out tasks that healthcare workers, such as nurses, normally do. Carrying out tasks using robots, frees up healthcare workers time. The World Health Organisation predicts that by 2025, the world will be 15 million healthcare workers short. Automation therefore helps address …
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PLC Programmable Logic Controller
PLC is short for Programmable Logic Controller. A PLC is an industrial computer, used for controlling processes in a factory. Programmable Logic Controllers have advantages over the original hard-wired systems, used in early factories. The introduction of electricity into factories, heralded the industrial era, referred to as ‘Industry 2.0’. Early Industry 2.0 factories had ‘hard …
Robot Types in Manufacturing
Robot types used in manufacturing, consist of three basic types