© Peter Matthews, Steven Greenspan 2020
P. Matthews, S. GreenspanAutomation and Collaborative Roboticshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5964-1_2

2. Technology Definitions

Level Setting for the Rest of the Book
Peter Matthews1  and Steven Greenspan2
(1)
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, UK
(2)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
 

Before discussing technology challenges, it is worth looking at how artificial intelligence, machine learning, reinforcement learning, and neural networks relate to each other, what are they, and what is their relationship to automation and collaborative robotics.

These definitions are for related technologies with some foundational technology; as shown in Figure 2-1, cloud computing is an underlying enabler, but may not be used in all ...

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