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Honeywell CTO Mehul Patel predicted AI will become routine in manufacturing. Fanuc America now uses Google Cloud’s Gemini to let robots read handwritten instructions. Multiple robots can share one cloud brain and work in harmony. Fanuc robot orders doubled from 500,000 to 1 million between 2017 and 2023. Generac expects more no-code and low-code robot controls. Briggs and Stratton sees workers shifting from data entry to strategy. Executives said safety layers prevent harmful robot actions. Patel said AI plus control systems will drive the next breakthroughs.

What it unlocks

Robots learn tasks from plain-language instructions instead of hard-coded programs.

  • 500,000 robots produced 1982–2017
  • 1,000,000 robots produced by 2023

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