Siemens Is Building An Army Of Collaborative Spider Robot Factory Workers

Instead of doing one job like typical factory bots, Siemens wants autonomous robots to work together to figure out how to tackle projects.

In the 1936 film Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin plays a factory worker whose only job is to tighten two bolts—again and again, all day, until he finally goes mad. It's the life of his robot descendants, which might, for example, weld the same car part over and over again. That model is reaching its own breaking point, says German industrial giant Siemens, because it's too clunky to keep up with market demands.

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