Researchers trying to make control systems more reliable, autonomous
Mark Spong remembers when robots, at least in a manufacturing sense, were big, dangerous machines surrounded by safety cages and pressure mats on the floor, which shut them down when people got too close.
"They were more glorified machine tools than intelligent robots," the University of Illinois electrical and computer engineering professor said recently.
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