The rise of AI industrial robotics experienced record double-digit expansion in various countries in 2014 and 2015, but such large scale segments i.e. ‘industrial’ versus ‘medical’ or ‘military’, were more or less one amalgam of parts a couple of decades ago. Examples of medical and military applications can be found in our updated machine learning in robotics guide. There was a time before the early 1980s when it was possible for AI researchers to keep up with all that was going on in the AI and the robotics industry as a whole, but it seems the tides had changed by 1982. Today, MIT’s AI Laboratory is just one (albeit a leading player) of many academic- and government-funded breeding grounds in AI and robotics, including for industrial applications.  MIT researchers in 2015 published a new assembly algorithm for autonomous robots that reduces robot teams’ planning time when working in new environments. Another MIT team created a new robotic model for robotic grippers in predicting and adapting to the external force needed to grasp an object in the environment (as depicted below).

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