Autonomous things

For some years we have been witnessing the automation of production tasks that used to be done by humans. This step helps achieve considerable savings in costs and resources. Now we are also seeing robots built for direct use with humans, so that they can provide services and extend the scope of what people can do.

Last year Gartner already put AuT at the top of its list of technology trends. According to the consultancy’s figures, by 2021 so-called swarm or collaborative intelligence will be a central design element for at least 30% of organisations implementing AI-enhanced systems. For next year, it also expects 10% of new vehicles to have autonomous driving capabilities, compared with less than one per cent in 2018. The use of autonomous entities keeps growing around the world…