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General Motors has developed a system called Consight that enables a robot equipped with an electronic camera to look at scattered parts on a conveyor, pick them up and transfer them in a specific sequence to another work area. It thus makes rudimentary judgments on which parts to pick up, but it is still too slow for an industrial assembly line. At a well-attended robot exhibition last month in Dearborn, Mich., one of the star attractions was a similar vision system developed by a brand-new company, Machine Intelligence Corp. of Mountain View, Calif. This firm was founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

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